My bloody other half is guilty of dying these things. It gets me absolutely riled.
We have a small semi detached 2 bed house, 1975 and has those horrible brown square bricks halfway up the house. It was cheap, 140k but we bought it and I'm proud to own it.
But OH sometimes looks at houses, or if we drive past a nice area he constantly makes 'how can people afford these houses? What do they do? Donyounmnkw what I mean? I just dont understand how people afford houses like that'
We also live very rurally. I would absolutely love to win the lottery and buy a nicer house, maybe a nice 4/5 bed that doesnt need anything doing to it, nice parking area, easy to maintain garden. I wouldnt want a mansion, but I do like space (I'm agoraphobic)
But OH comments make me think people work hard, they have decent jobs that they worked hard to get. We both have good careers but where we are they dont pay well, were not interested in travelling to bigger places to work to earn more, so that's why we cant afford a lot.
I think we could do it if we really really put our minds to it, but we dont, we are, or at least I am semi content with my little house. Good on the people who have much nicer bigger houses, I'm abit jealous, but it's only my own fault.