To hate the social comparison of house price boasting / general house price chat?

[Hellooooo754]

I love the London neighbourhood I live in, but I’ve been aware for some time that it’s ritzier than I am and that I can’t really afford to stay here.

I do a running group with a bunch of local women (who I like but have definitely got more disposable income than me) and the conversation this morning turned to property prices. Boasts about x house selling for x INSANE price, how another woman’s house is now worth x equally insane price.

I’m sick of the chat. It makes me feel shit because it’s money I don’t have. And it makes me feel shit because it doesn’t impress me, it depresses me because the money is absurd. It makes me feel like I don’t belong.

I usually come back from my running club feeling great (I have wobbly - albeit well hidden - MH), but now I just feel so flat.

Am I being unreasonable to absolutely loathe the house price chat?!

And why do London interlopers (it’s usually those who are fresh-ish to this area) talk about it so goddamn much?! (Tbf I was at a party in another expensive part of SE England and the chat focussed on house prices there, too!).

@Hellooooo754

I love the London neighbourhood I live in, but I’ve been aware for some time that it’s ritzier than I am and that I can’t really afford to stay here.

I do a running group with a bunch of local women (who I like but have definitely got more disposable income than me) and the conversation this morning turned to property prices. Boasts about x house selling for x INSANE price, how another woman’s house is now worth x equally insane price.

I’m sick of the chat. It makes me feel shit because it’s money I don’t have. And it makes me feel shit because it doesn’t impress me, it depresses me because the money is absurd. It makes me feel like I don’t belong.

I usually come back from my running club feeling great (I have wobbly - albeit well hidden - MH), but now I just feel so flat.

Am I being unreasonable to absolutely loathe the house price chat?!

And why do London interlopers (it’s usually those who are fresh-ish to this area) talk about it so goddamn much?! (Tbf I was at a party in another expensive part of SE England and the chat focussed on house prices there, too!).

Ffs. "I usually come back from my running club...." "I was at a party in another expensive part if SE....." Just get on with your life Op

I feel your pain, OP. It's a form of middle class bum sniffing I am very familiar with - "Oh, you live on that street? Nice! If you own it that was a really good buy...hmmm? My friend lives on the side that back onto the park...oh, you don't. Yeah, she's just extended, glass box and bronze finished copper cladding...a lean to? Haha! Oh you're not joking." Aaaand so on.

It only serves to remind me that I am afraid to replace my misted windows in case my elderly roof falls in!

Ffs. "I usually come back from my running club...."
"I was at a party in another expensive part if SE....."
Just get on with your life Op

I am getting on with my life…

The party was DH’s cousin’s. They live in Surrey, which I consider to be a very affluent part of the SE. I was born working class, here in London (not the same part I live in now). DH was not born working class, nor is he from London originally.

I don’t love the upward social comparisons that seem to be constantly happening where I live now. Maybe I am being unreasonable, but it makes me feel uncomfortable / irritated / inadequate somehow!