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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not common around you because you don't live in a particularly affluent area.  If you lived in NWDC, Chevy Chase/Bethesda. Great Falls, McLean, etc., then you'd see many people caught up in the rat race.  I very much feel like I'm part of it and it surrounds me where I live.  I know I could avoid it by moving, but I guess on some level, I'm happy being caught up in the race.[/quote]

I live in one of those areas and use public schools and don't feel in a rat race.  I do recognize that we sometimes spend more than others on summer camp or overseas travel but I don't do it to impress anyone or because I need to keep up with anyone-- we are lucky to have the money to do that (partly because we live in a small house with one 10 yo car, and use public schools) and that's how we choose to spend it.

I think 90% of the "rat race" is in people's heads.  Or, as my mother used to say when siblings would argue over who started it-- "it takes two to tango".[/quote]

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