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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]What per diem are you talking about? The only time I get per diem is when I am on official travel outside my post of assignment. 
As for schooling and housing, the government has an obligation to provide secure and safe housing and that schooling that is at minimum equivalent to what we get here in a Fairfax County is available to our children. Payment for housing in language training depends on the length - long or short term training. I guess next we should pay our own language training tuition too? You're just jealous because you think someone is getting something you don't. That is entitlement.[/quote]

I don't know, PP. I'm a physician and I work my tail off. We're in a decent neighborhood and live below our means, but do fine. In both my current and previous condo buildings, the occupants of the pent houses who send their kids to the 30K/year preschools across the street were FSO.

I get that safe housing and good education should be part of the package. I scratch my head, however, when I see what qualifies as those two things. 30K for preschool, huh? Interesting.[/quote]

Another FSO wife here, State doesn't pay for preschool - only for kindergarten and up. And the private school where we're posted is well less than 10K/year. And State pays NOTHING for school if we're posted in the US, not a single penny. We're expected, rightly so, to send our kids to public school. If they were paying for preschool, that was their own choice and came out of their pocket.[/quote]

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