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[quote=Anonymous]It's all relative. When I moved here (silver spring/bethesda) I made $41K. I felt rich because I previously made $20K (in a lower COL area). I felt I was able to afford a decent lifestyle, nothing extravagant, but fine. All my friends made the same/similar salaries, so we all had similar social budgets. I met my DH a year after I got here, and he and his friends were all in Biglaw and they thought my salary was sad. Now we have a high HHI and I think the biggest difference between me and my friends from that time (almost 10 years later) is that my DH's big salary allowed us to buy a larger home in south Bethesda that I never would have been able to otherwise afford. But my friends have also bought houses in DC, Silver Spring, Rockville, so we are all hitting the same milestones. [/quote]
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