I see people on this app on visa making $300k - $400k buying muti million dollar houses and I’m here in a $500k house in a lower middle class neighborhood. Like do H1B and immigrant folk look at us US citizens and laugh at us? Like I’m so dumb I don’t even go out and try to start my own business (as H1B can rarely start their own business). Like the banks are ready to give me a loan to buy a gas station, strip club, motel, rental property and I’m just sitting on my ass playing Call of Duty working at a low TC job.
Why do you want to humiliate yourself and the other citizens and at the same time stereotype both the groups immigrants and citizens? Don't compare yourself to others. Do what you enjoy doing. Have fun in life!
Plenty of citizens making a bank and plenty of immigrants making less (H1B is one of the visa but plenty of people from all over the world come here and end up in minimum wage jobs). The only limiting factor is you. You want to play cod, and have a low stress lifestyle, that’s totally okay. You want to grind to make money, then go do that. It’s mostly about what the country has to offer and what you get out of it.
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Your dad worked his ass off so you could be comfortable. Your kids will study art, their kids will be bums and their kids will work their ass off and be successful.
You're doing amazingly well OP. Try not to let the toxicity of Blind tell you otherwise. I also make about 150k and have a house that's worth less than yours, in the 400s. But it's all I need. I can travel, eat good food, and have everything I want at this TC. Why stress more and earn more?
Which city has house for 400K in 2023
Definitely not Bay Area or Seattle. 🥲
Yes many immigrants and many of their kids consider Americans dumb and inept. Many kids with US citizenship and strong ties abroad also hate Americans and only stick around for money. People in this country need to have a discussion about being a nation of immigrants. It does not appear to be making this country competitive anymore. We are big, but that is mostly from prior military conquest and imperialism.
Yeah open so is not competitive
We don't laugh at anyone. Most of us come from very humble backgrounds. That said, there are exceptions and there are bound to be assholes amongst us.
Best answer here.
I am an immigrant on H1B and make 160k. I have ideas to start passive income but can't start most of it due to visa restrictions. If you can as a citizen and your goal is to compare with others you should dwell into generating passive income. Your father should be your starting point and hooking onto his experience to start into real estate. Maybe even start with a small loan of 1M$ from your father ?
Might I point out loads of visas don't allow family members to work.
Are you happy?
My dad is a immigrant and says I’m wasting my potential. My dad came to this country with nothing and now has $5 million in real estate rental properties. Though he did get lucky during the 2010s housing boom.
So he bought real estate after everything went to hell because of the subprime mortgage crisis and now thinks you should be able to do the same when prices just keep going up? Sounds like he's out of touch with reality.
Ignore your dad. He sounds toxic.