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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP.  What was the point of you post to begin with?  And you left out education allowances - $20 - $50K per year per kid.  Is this excessive too?  What are we supposed to do?  Pay out of pocket for private? 
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You sound exactly like the spoiled FS families I knew while we lived in Asia, with kids.  Do you know how many American and expat families have to pay their own tuition?  It's a myth that all expats have massive salaries and special packages.  These FS families seemed way more out of touch with the locals, and were a constant source of ridicule.  In our country they lived in gated communities outside city center, and whenever I trekked out to visit friends, I could hear them gloriously bitching about their domestic help.  So many of them were downright distrustful of the locals, thinking of "us v them." I think these benefits hinder the work they do overseas, and as a taxpayer, I am against a lot of them. It's also so environmentally unfriendly.  FSOs were shipping cars and Amazon packages all the time. So wasteful and unnecessary.

I know plenty of nice FSO families here, but I think they all turn into the worst versions of themselves and our country when posted abroad.[/quote]

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