To want to call MIL out for being rude as hell

[Flowersinyourhair]

Long history with MIL who generally drives me potty. They live in the south, we live in the north. Our houses are worth a comparable amount of money. MIL here visiting and currently googling house prices on the road we live on to see what ours is worth. All done with an air of how grim and cheap it is up north compared to the expensive and sought after south. Whilst I appreciate that some parts of the north are cheap and some parts of the south are expensive this is not true of where we live at all. AIBU that sitting in someone's house looking up the value of that house is bloody rude??

No it's not big (4 beds but not massive). Just in a nice place. We do have nice places in the north where houses cost as much as they do in the south a fact that mil has yet to grasp

Did her darling boy move up north to be with you?
If so she may well be resentful, hence the comments.
I'd just keep repeating how happy you are up here and how you are glad you didn't move to a concrete jungle.

I would look up her street and compare the prices with her.
You could make it your new joint hobby with her !
I don't think I would be offended.
I love property programmes and Rightmove.

I would say 'Ta love. Just going out for a deep fried battered Mars Bar, ta-ra.
Many people in the South are obsessed with property values.And mortgages. I know, I live there. Groan.

I'm not against browsing rightmove myself to be fair- just not when I'm actually sitting on someone's sofa!

In my experience, some people from the south are obsessed by property prices. I have no idea how much houses on our street go for (we're in the north too - hello!) because I just can't find the energy to care.

I'd be tempted to find out which of your MIL's neighbours' houses is worth the most and then rub it in by saying "Oh, Neighbour 2's house is worth so much more! Is yours a bit run-down in comparison?" but then again I do know how to hold a grudge!

Hello! (Waves to Babysham). Liking your plan there!

Thoughtless of her, no doubt.

But if you have a long history with her, this is not the one to go nucleur on. Too trivial.

Somewhat of a tangent but I've just moved back "home" and house prices have gone wild since I last lived here and it's all anyone talks about. I find the relentless property chatter so tacky and tiresome.

It is tacky I totally agree and not something I would ever do. I have, of course, kept a smile painted on my face and ignored her...