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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry OP, unlike you, I would rather live in an expensive area with a short commute so that I can spend time with my family than live in a big cheap house in Haymarket and have to be in the car for four hours a day.  I have a friend who gets home and half the time the nanny has already put her kid to bed.  I'd rather feel middle class where I live now than feel rich but not ever see my kid.  So there you go!  [/quote]

Exactly.  You have the choice to live in a fancy area, which the true middle class can't afford to live in.  How many schoolteachers, nurses and paralegals (i.e. actual middle class people) live in Chevy Chase or Bethesda?  Not many.[/quote]

Agreed.  Chevy Chase (or Bethesda, McLean) would've be an awesome location for us commute-wise, but spending over 40% of our income on housing was just not financially feasible.  We selected the closest in location we could afford (Silver Spring).  No fancy house, 1940s boring brick thing.  Middle class folks aren't "choosing" between Chevy Chase and McMansions in exurbs, they are much more limited in where they can buy.[/quote]

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