My Dad 71 is visiting Me 37 for the first time. I live in New Jersey, closer to NY so the housing sucks here and well generally countrywide things have been tough. I bought a small cabin like house, and even had to go up significantly to win the bid on it. This was after almost 4 months of trying. The house is really small but cute. I cleaned up and cooked for his visit, paid for a business class flight from overseas, he walked in and first thing he said to me was “you must have been really desperate to buy this house”.
I don’t know why but it made me feel really bad. Took a lot of savings to buy and even update it for me. Significantly put off now from this whole visit.
TL; DR- Dad feels I must have been desperate to buy the house I finally got after saving and months of offers being denied.