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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unreal!  I have 4 kids with HHI of 180K, and we are living just fine.  People on this forum are unrealistic.  [/quote]

What are your plans for paying for college?  Do you live in DC or close in suburbs?  [/quote]
[b]Not to derail completely, but why does everyone on DCUM think that their snowflakes are entitled to a completely parent financed college education?  This was the exception and not the rule when I was in school and most of us worked part-time or had odd jobs around campus to help pay for expenses. [/b] Not knocking it, but not every kid is college material either so just curious why everybody seems to think that it's mandatory to be able to pay for a full 4-5 years of private school living on campus.[/quote]

When you were in college, it was more affordable.  That's it.  I don't want my kids to be saddled with 200k in debt out of undergrad.  And whether you like it or not, college is still the gateway for a middle class life in most cases.  It has nothing to do with special snowflakes and everything to do with not wanting to have your kid start out with a big burden and disadvantage as a young adult.[/quote]
Agreed - like I said, I wasn't knocking it (completely), but it just seems odd that more people aren't pushing them toward 2 years of community college or state school.  Everybody throws out that 200-300k number which is the cost of living on campus at a private school for an entire college education.  I think part of the reason it is so expensive is because we (the market) are willing to pay those kind of prices.  :)
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