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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, in NW DC it is middle class. That's reality.[/quote]

You're deluded.[/quote]
Not really. I'm in a small apt in NW DC, no debt, family of 3 living on $160 and we can't even afford a car. $40k wouldn't hurl us into the upper class.[/quote]

I call bullshit.  I owned a home and a car with a family of three in NW DC making about $140K.  AND we had student loan debt.  AND we have fully funded 401Ks.  AND we took a vacation every year.  Get a financial advisor...you obviously can't manage money.  [/quote]

NP here, you either had no childcare costs or did this in 1995.[/quote]

Wrong.  I paid for daycare and this was very, very recent.  Like, up until a year and a half ago when I moved.  The difference is thought we bought a house in a neighborhood that 95% of DCUM would think was beneath them, without central air or a finished basement. For our one year of public preschool we relied on the lottery.  Had we stayed we would have continued to do so.  We bought what we could afford because we were - and still are - middle class. It can be done but requires tough choices.  The question is whether these are choices you are willing to make and if not, what are you going to do about it?[/quote]

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