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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Success?  Living a stress free life filled with activities, people, and beautiful things for me.  I enjoy spending time on hobbies, of which I have many.  Love my kids and like spending time with them, but it's also stressful.  Like beautiful things, which bring me a lot of joy to look at and be around.  That's everything from good landscaping, beautiful old trees, aesthetically pleasing furniture, etc.  Would love to travel extensively with my husband.

What does this mean in terms of the money that is involved?  Well north of $500k in this area.  No doubt.  You'd need a good piece of property, money to furnish it, money to account for the time that you're not working because you're doing other things you enjoy/with your kids, and hiring ample help to manage the day-to-day things.  A full time housekeeper, for one.

No use being green with envy at those who have more than you, no use denying the obvious.  Money buys you time.  Money buys you opportunities.  Jealous people claim that it's all to show off to others.  Maybe for some, but not here.  Our HHI is not anywhere close to $500k but I'd sure like to get there someday.[/quote]

I don't know.  If anything, this thread kind of shows that the more money you get, the more you want.   I see a lot of people on here who can't be content with what most Americans and certainly the rest of the world would consider a very high income and a very elite lifestyle.  [/quote]

My relatives from a developing world came to visit me recently.  My uncle remarked that while we have literally everything we need and want, what I really need is more help around the house.  And he is absolutely right.  But that shiznit is expensive around here.  The big thing that is different about the US (and I guess most of the developed West?) is the cost of hiring people to work for you.  You can live a much, much more luxurious and stress free (but perhaps more materially poor) life somewhere in South America or Asia with a fraction of what you make in DC because you can afford to hire 2 housekeepers, a cook, and a nanny with very little money.  People say once you've experienced that it makes such a huge difference you'd never want to go back.  A lot of average Americans retire and move to a developing country for just this reason - and live like kings and queens.  I have a rich relative down south with permanent full time help but that is $60k a year - so budget $100k off your HHI for help.  How many people can afford that?[/quote]

You realize you're lamenting the lack of an exploitable underclass, right? [/quote]

But, without the ability to hire multiple servants for miniscule wages, I don't feel successful!  It's not enough that I should succeed, others must fail.[/quote]

I was referring to OP's question on "success."  Being able to hire enough help in THIS country, at the wages required of this area, I feel, would be a sizable contribution to my quality of life.

Your piss poor reading comprehension doesn't correlate with your condescendingly high opinion of yourself. [/quote]

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