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[quote=Anonymous]I grew up in a small place in the Midwest in a smallish SFH out in the country. My parents built it so it was new, but it was very builder-grade and they had to make trade offs when building.  But, it was nicer than many of the kids I went to school with who lived in trailers or prefab houses, so I always felt relatively affluent even when I wasn’t objectively compared to most Americans.

DH grew up in a big house in a leafy suburb outside of NYC.  When I first saw his parents house, I thought they were so rich and the whole town looked like a movie set to me.  His parents sold the house 10 years ago for 1.5M, which was 1M more than they paid for it in the late 80s.  His parents were white collar professionals but at non-profits and they could never afford that part of Westchester today.

DH and I met in college and a combination of well paying jobs and riding the property ladder up in DC by buying in a crappy part of Capitol Hill that became a nice part of Capitol Hill later on means that we now have a much nicer and more expensive house than either of us had growing up, even his parents house.  Sometimes I am surprised that my kids live such a different and more comfortable life than I did. They live in a 7000 sq ft house in CCMD, go to private school, sleep away camp for a big stretch of the summer, lots of sports, etc.  But, their dad works tons of hours at a high stress job to pay for it.

I wish you could still get a nice life in places like Chevy Chase or close in NY suburbs with a non-profit salary and schedule like DH’s mom and dad had, but now it takes a bigger, more stressful job to get to the same place.

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