Aibu or is just my imagination? So tired to find jealousy and envy...

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when people know/ discover that we 've just bought a gorgeous property! Our own home after years of renting and savings and of course we are delighted with the house.
It's just sad to see how people compete, compare, etc instead of sharing the great news.

YANBU

I am frequently told I am "lucky."

I'm not lucky. I'm unlucky, as to have my property, I lost my entire family.

But hey. I don't have a mortgage.

How exactly are they "competing and comparing"?

Do you mean your entire family died, fiveacres?

Yes.

YANBU
Property obsession and one upmanship is the scourge of British society imo
Congratulations on your new home and wishing you many years of happiness there

That is absolutely awful, fiveacres. I'm so sorry.

I don't understand your OP really. I can't imagine being like that in the face of someone else's happiness so I'm having trouble imagining how that conversation would go. What have people said to you?

That's kind of you Imperial - thank you. I do get 'lucky' a lot though and 'hurt stealth boast' in here if it comes up in context. I wish people could experience a tiny, tiny percentage of the pain gone through to get this property. I am young to have no mortgage but I'm also young to have no bloody family left as well!

Hurrrr stealth boast that should have said!

bt, five - same here. Managed to buy outright after many years, because of the death of my last remaining parent. Thankfully snippy comments have only been from people not very close.

Im sorry to hear about your story fiveacres, don't know what to say...

I think there is a ridiculous home ownership obsession in this society, honestly.