I find I become irrational when my keyboard is too small…no wait, thats unintelligible…

I initially read this in the fashion of:

Youre swimming at the beach and now your parents are throwing you out of the house.

I was confused about what a riptide had to do with that.

Setup:

• Good income
• Low cost of living area
• Dont live my wage

Result: Plenty of savings and investments

When people in a poor area who litterally dont have $50 in their bank account see you with 2 vehicles in the driveway (nothing fancy, just a car and truck) and do various projects to improve on your home, its not hard to put 2+2 together.

And when youve helped out friends in the past, they like to talk about how much you helped them.

And now youre a target.

This I can agree with. Started when I found out a friends wife needed surgery (not life threatening, but would remove a cronic pain from her life and she could start working again, big QoL improvement). They couldnt afford the upfront payments, so they were going to not going to do it. So I forwarded him the money so she could have it done, hes been good about paying me back, it is very very slow, but hes working at it so no worries. Wife mentioned to her/our friends how I helped, and it just went from there.

I should have known better and just let her suffer.

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I know the more I make, more people expect me to just pay for everything because ‘I make so much’.

Ive had people demand I pay for their vacation (flight and hotel)…just because.

Oh they have a car issue “Can I pay you back later?” (They never pay back)

“Im a little short for groceries, I need food!” (Proceed to buy junk food and high quality produce they never get with their money) (And again Im an ass if I ask to be paid back, cause what I expect them to STARVE!!)

Oh shit, they dont have money for rent, how many times Ive gotten this one. Just 50, 100,150,200,250…and keep slowly creeping up. WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU WONT PAY IT,ILL BE HOMELESS BECAUSE OF YOU!!!

Even had my neighbor demand (not ask, demand!) I pay for their car cause theyre 3 months behind and its about to be repo’d, and itll be MY FAULT! (with them yelling at me on my porch).

I know I had to stop being nice about lending, cause everyone else never wanted to stop ‘asking’. So yeah, I cant give an inch or people will just go for the full mile.