three quarters of recent home buyers expressed some regret

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58. Great response from a reader...

Wow. This reads like an Onion article.

“You see these people on Instagram with their farm life. Nobody tells you what actual hard work that is and how time consuming it is.”

“I decided, I’ve done a lot of traveling, I’ve had a lot of fun. I’ve done the thing where I’m like, ‘I’m hungry for pasta, I’m going to go to Rome for three days.’”

“When I first saw it, I cried,” she said of the house with views of the Puget Sound. “I fell in love.”

I'm a social worker who shelters (or tries to anyhow) homeless families, in a city with a well-publicized homelessness crisis and major housing shortages. My org and others like it put on a positive face and try to present our successes to the world, but in truth the level of need out there is so far beyond what our funding & resources can provide, it's overwhelming. Reading the shallow self-deluded entitlement on display here hurts my heart a little.

https://nyti.ms/3HzlddB#permid=116763599