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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is a wonderful salary. I could make this HHI work and meet all the goals for our family - SFH, foreign vacations, socializing, cars, tutors, ECs, cleaning lady, 2 kids college.

- SAHM[/quote]
Where, exactly would this SFH be located?[/quote]

DP but if you had 250k per year when you got married, then you can climb the real estate ladder. You live in an apartment for a few years while you save up your down payment, then you buy a starter home for 600-700k, live there until kids are school age, then you sell that and put the equity towards a house in great school district. If you save and invest intelligently, you should have over 500k in equity by the time you buy that second house. If you marry young and can wait a bit to have kids, you could have more. If your parents can contribute a bit to your first down payment, that will bump you up too. If you stick to 2 kids, this will limit your expenses and leave plenty leftover. This is a great life.

The mistake is people thinking they should be able to get married at 27 or 28, immediately buy a 1.5m house in a suburb with great schools, and then want to have 3 kids, and then decide they want those kids to attend expensive private schools anyway. People just constantly come up with creative and stupid ways to "need" more money.

Learn how to live a good life on 250k and you can be happy your whole life. Your life will feel abundant. If you can't make that work, you will never, ever be happy.[/quote]
This is not how most people start out.  But yeah, sure, in an ideal world — which is, a world we don't live in.[/quote]

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