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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know I'm weighing in quite late on this...but,

I was making $300k a year just a few years ago when my son was in private school in NoVa (one of the top PreK-8 schools) and I could not keep up with the Joneses. While I had a VERY healthy income and am not complaining one bit, it had to be nothing compared to the lawyers, dentists, entrepreneurs, and old-money families who had kids at the school. We never overtly talked about money, of course. You figure it out by observing -- we were scrimping and saving for a beach week and summer camps for two kids and private school tuitions for both. They seemingly had no trouble sending two, three, four, or even five kids in one case to private school and taking ski vacations and European jaunts and going away every winter to someplace sunny and having a nanny all year round even when the kids were in elementary school and middle school and on and on. Money was clearly not an issue for a lot of these families.

That said, my son had friends across the social spectrum -- families who were there on financial aid as a result of the young scholars program, families who never went anywhere so they could send the kids to the school, and families who probably could have sent three kids to the school without breaking a sweat.I don't think it mattered that much to him.  I definitely noticed, though again, I'm not sure it mattered much.

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How is it that broke working class college students can go to the beach for a week but you're struggling on 300K to do the same? On 300K, you should be able to easily take vacations.

OP, our HHI is around 100K in private and we don't feel out of place at all. DD's friends go to France for 2-3 weeks. We opt for cheap flights to the Caribbean. I don't get the impression that anyone gives a damn.[/quote]

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