Okay, so I know this is a little bit of a rant, so let me just say that right off the bat. I don't really need any help with it, but I just have to get this off my chest.

I really wish people would stop responding to complaints or problems people have with the phrase: "First world problems."

And what they mean is you are so privileged that your problems or complaints aren't valid or don't matter.

It just pisses me off so much. Like okay, so I get from your perspective you see that I have an apartment in a specific community and think that I'm privileged, but you don't know my life or my problems or what anyone is going through. Am I experiencing homelessness? No. Does that mean my issues with my property manager or whatever aren't real or a problem for me? No.

It's not the Olympics of pain. My problems don't have to be worse than yours or anyone else's to be real. And like I said, you don't know what I or anyone else is going through on top of that problem that you perceive is a "first world problem" to invalidate us.

Yes, I am grateful for the things that I do have. It doesn't mean that I don't also have problems that I deserve support for.

End rant. Note: "you" throughout is general you, not anyone here specifically. This rant is inspired by a comment on a thread in a Facebook group that is for members of the large apartment community I live in. The complex, which has 4000 residents, recently started a "valet" trash service that is required, and we have had numerous problems, including trash NOT being picked up, meaning it piles up in the hallways. I have zero interest in living in a place where trash is stacked up in the hallways with nowhere for us residents to put it (because they've locked up our dumpsters). So yes, it's a "first world problem" but it's no less a problem.