http://blogs.livemint.com/blogs/career/archive/tags/financial+crisis/default.aspxTAGS: financial crisisenCommunityServer 2007 SP2 (Build: 20611.960)http://blogs.livemint.com/blogs/career/archive/2008/09/19/covet-thy-colleague-s-real-estate.aspxFri, 19 Sep 2008 08:06:00 GMT69a35da2-a32a-4865-9f9a-b94bb9d2309f:2379S. Mitra Kalita2http://blogs.livemint.com/blogs/career/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=2379http://blogs.livemint.com/blogs/career/archive/2008/09/19/covet-thy-colleague-s-real-estate.aspx#comments<p>&nbsp;Today&#39;s <a href="http://www.livemint.com/2008/09/18232555/Even-magic-bricks-crumble.html" target="_blank">column </a>married what has been The Topic in this capital -- the global financial crisis and the DDA lottery. Although on the latter, I think we all submitted our cheques and have moved forward with life. The former seems like we will be facing a fallout for months,possibly years to come. Have been getting differing feedback (check out the comments below the story) but I do have a slightly offbeat question to relate this to this blog. Does anyone toil in a workplace that suffers from constant real estate envy? Does how much one paid for their flat, or even rent dominate meetings and discussions? Do you feel judged by whether you own--and where? If you are inheriting a tonne of property from your working-class parents who just happened to plan a little better, do you shirk from the spotlight when real estate is mentioned? </p><p>These are all things I noticed in the real estate boom in the US--andn have started to see in India also. There becomes this peer pressure almost to buy buy buy. But like I said in today&#39;s piece, let&#39;s hope we aren&#39;t kissing our money bye bye bye.&nbsp; <br /></p> <div class = "shareblock"><strong>Share this post:</strong> <a href = "mailto:?body=Thought you might like this: http://blogs.livemint.com/blogs/career/archive/2008/09/19/covet-thy-colleague-s-real-estate.aspx&amp;;subject=Covet+thy+colleague%27s+...+real+estate%3f++" target="_blank" title = "Post http://blogs.livemint.com/blogs/career/archive/2008/09/19/covet-thy-colleague-s-real-estate.aspx">email it!</a> | <a href = "http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://blogs.livemint.com/blogs/career/archive/2008/09/19/covet-thy-colleague-s-real-estate.aspx&amp;;title=Covet+thy+colleague%27s+...+real+estate%3f++" target="_blank" title = "Post http://blogs.livemint.com/blogs/career/archive/2008/09/19/covet-thy-colleague-s-real-estate.aspx">del.icio.us!</a> | <a href = "http://www.digg.com/submit?url=http://blogs.livemint.com/blogs/career/archive/2008/09/19/covet-thy-colleague-s-real-estate.aspx&amp;;phase=2" target="_blank" title = "Post http://blogs.livemint.com/blogs/career/archive/2008/09/19/covet-thy-colleague-s-real-estate.aspx">digg it!</a> | <a href = "http://newsvine.com/_tools/seed?u=http://blogs.livemint.com/blogs/career/archive/2008/09/19/covet-thy-colleague-s-real-estate.aspx" target="_blank" title = "Post http://blogs.livemint.com/blogs/career/archive/2008/09/19/covet-thy-colleague-s-real-estate.aspx">newsVine!</a></div><img src="http://blogs.livemint.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=2379" width="1" height="1">workplacelehmanmoneyDDAspendingmerrillfinancial crisisDDA lotteryenvyreal estatewider anglecolumnmitra kalita