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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My family of 5 (3 young kids) live in NoVA within the beltway and have a 4 bedroom/2.5 bathroom house with an unfinished basement that we bought for $700,000 about 8 years ago. That totally stretched the budget for us but we did it since we knew we were planning on having kids.

Now we have 3 kids and we use all the bedrooms and have no dedicated guest space. In order to see our family for any extended period of time we have to travel to them. My sister lives in New England in a huge 4600 sq ft house with a large dedicated guest space. So we tend to spend a week or more with them a few times a year so all kids can spend time together.

I just feel jealous and sad we can’t afford a larger house to have guests over and host things like Christmas, etc. My sister spent $1.3 million on her house about a year ago. If we wanted sometime equivalent in the DMV are we would probably have to spend closer to $2 million.

While we make good money we are trying to aggressively pay off student loans ($250,000 in 10 years) and also paying for 3 daycares. Just feeling inadequate we don’t have space to host after seeing family this holiday. [/quote]

First World problems [/quote]

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