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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Joseph - please don't write this story.[/quote]

"* People who are making solid, even great incomes — let’s call it $400,000 a year or so — but are finding that even with that much money coming in, far too much is going out. The house. The nanny. The social commitments. The far-too-expensive restaurants in the neighborhood. Et cetera."

Please do write this story.  Would like to hear from others on this without the disruption of people on DCUM who dismiss it as ungrateful or don't understand how expenses can increase as income increases.

Put us squarely in the category above.  We have a HHI in this range, we are saving at least a third of that, but it seems insane that it isn't more. We spend around $20K a month, have a reasonable mortgage and money in the bank but it is far from what I thought life would look like 10 years ago if you told me this is what our income would be.  This is not a gripe.  We know that we are lucky, simply an observation - nanny, tuition, taxes, mortgage.

Also add in the fact that I personally feel trapped - I could never leave DC and earn the same salary, or even an equivalent salary adjusted for cost of living.

This is not what earning this income was supposed to feel like - we thought we would have it made.  We are comfortable and not financially stressed, but we don't have it made.
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