Anyone else feeling a bit of survivors guilt buying a house?
Totally a first world problem, but it's been a bit hard trying to celebrate buying our home when so many of our mates are doing it hard. We lucked out and bought in our desired areas literally two months before everyone lost their damn minds. For comparison, six months after we settled, our neighbors property sold at 80k higher then ours (both nearly identical except theirs has solar). Most of my friends are moving because their LL's have raised their rents by an average of 80 bucks a week. We've got a spare room, so I'm fully prepared to have someone stay with us in the near future (they'll have to BYO furniture though, the purchase cleaned us out lol). Chucking a house warming almost feels like heading to Hawaii during a bushfire ay this point.
Not sure what the point of this post is, but feeling a bit shit for my friends. Any platitudes or advice feels like I'm rubbing salt in their wounds. There's got to be more I can do beside saying "that's awful, I'm sorry you're moving".
Edit: really interesting to see peoples responses. I don't think I've worked any harder then my friends. I take international holidays. I don't have the latest phone, but only because I want my kids to go to private school (cos lol we bought in a shit area with shit schools). I fortunately have a WFH career so being so far out doesn't matter. These are the people that would help me move when my LL raised rent, give me a feed when my budget just wasn't stretching till payday. I was gutted when one of my best friends had to move to port hedland because they were offering her free housing. She was planning to buy in our area too and missed the boat by about two months.
And honestly apart from that, I just really feel for my friends.