I think the responses to your posts on the thread you linked were pretty tame and not very personal (save for sdr, but he seems to enjoy trying to rile people up). Most people were just stating facts; they weren’t digging into your particular info and weren’t making assumptions about your income, financial position, family life, etc. I really enjoy your more general posts, but sometimes cringe when you try to paint a complete picture of someone with only one or two data points. Then, you tend to insist that the picture you’ve painted is the true picture of their lives. IMHO, that’s what annoys people.
Just because people put (some) information about their situations on the internet doesn’t mean they want to be stalked.
For example, that “other poster” your referring to is probably pretty successful and can easily afford to live in those high-end areas, but he/she didn’t want to overspend on a house. There’s nothing wrong with that. It sounds like they did pretty well for themselves by finding something they didn’t think was as overvalued as many of the properties they were looking at in California.
Please don’t take this as an insult, because it’s absolutely not meant that way. You’re intelligent, opinionated, and direct…at that’s all good. It just might help to get your point across better if you stop assuming so much about other people’s situations, and try instead to put out more general opinions about how people might handle various situations without trying to get too personal.
