I think it comes down to mentality.

.” ― Martin Luther King JrI do my best to live by these principles and man ohh man it is tough and a constant mental argument with thyself...Mandela Schmela....... 

I'm just getting started in looking for properties in the Baltimore/Fort Meade, MD area, and have been running into some mental blocks - I'm hoping you can help me! 

For most people, the debt payoff process mentally prepares them for transitioning to long-term wealth building, by way of developing the self discipline required to minimizing expenses and maximizing savings goals in the long run. 

Plus working in Northern VA as a service tech, you deal with very "I know it all" mentality in exspensive areas. 

This only makes a person mentally add a number to the rent amount. 

Something I value significantly is my mental sanity. 

Finding myself one month ahead on my mortgage had become good mental headspace when it came to managing the anxieties of rentals and reliably took a considerable amount of solid fear off the table whether that fear was rational and justified or not.

""texas mentality/bigotry"Uh, what?  

BY being surrounded both physically, mentally, emotionally, you become that thing.