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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have to agree, OP.  
I don’t know that everything is 30% more expensive than it was a few years ago, but I do think that either the amount of money you need to be wealthy OR the idea of what it looks like to be wealthy needs to shift from where it was 30 years ago.

Only relatively wealthy people have all of the following:
- [b]regular vacations where you fly to a destination and stay in a hotel[/b]
- homes that they own near where they work
- adequate retirement savings
- savings for kids’ college
- nice food and groceries whenever 
- high quality childcare
- nicely decorated homes
- regular new clothes
- nice/newish cars
- good medical/dental care

I think there is a narrative that everyone has these things, and UMC folks have this and more.  The reality is that lots of people have SOME of these things, but you have to have quite a bit of money to have ALL of them.

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A generation ago, UMC/MC people did not have the same expectations of frequent flying vacations, new cars, expensive home renovations etc.

Some people are struggling but others are just unrealistic.[/quote]

Im going to disagree.  I think a generation ago people expected that they could afford a SAHP, 1-2 vacations a year, and nice furniture for their homes on a doctor’s salary.  [/quote]

OP didn’t mention any of those things (frequent flying vacations 1-2x/year, a SAHP, new cars, expensive home renovations, nice furniture, or a doctor’s salary). [/quote]

She said that she makes $250k/yr, which is a doctor’s salary.  
And she doesn’t feel that she can have the things she wants to raise children without her spouse’s income.  
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OP, what does your current boyfriend make? Is he at $175 and you're annoyed that you out earn him or he is at $75 and you're concerned that you way out earn him?[/quote]

Who cares?  What does that have to do with the fact that you have to be pretty wealthy to afford things that people took for granted 30-40 years ago?

Shouldn’t we acknowledge the fact that income disparity is so much bigger than the media tells us?  [/quote]

Because that is not actually a fact.  It’s just something you made up.[/quote]

It IS a fact. That fact is the entire basis of OP’s post.[/quote]

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