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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op, everyone is shit-Ing on you because they don’t live in nyc and have no idea how much it costs to live here. 400k really doesn’t go as far as people think here. I empathize. I don’t work 65 hour weeks but DH regularly works 70 plus hour weeks and I’m at 45hrs. This is just the reality of what two working professional families do in Manhattan. You situation may seem crazy by DC standards but it’s not uncommon in nyc. [/quote]

400k is pretty low in Manhattan. Op’s hours are not crazy for nyc at all.

I personally wouldn’t think it is worth it to work that much for a poor standard of living. We have friends who recently moved to dc from ny with similar incomes and they say they barely made ends meet in nyc. They rented an apt, paid for a full time nanny, paying off grad school loans made them feel very poor in nyc. Now kids are in school in Va, live in a single family house with yard and spending lots of quality time with kids. They make less but feel much richer.[/quote]

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