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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People I am envious of:
My friend who just got tenure at an R1 university
My friend who has a killer design sense and just bought her 3rd investment property
My friend who literally built her own house by hand, travels the world, and is now getting a nursing degree
My friend who quit a sucky job and went out on her own as a consultant making more money working less time, spends her time on a multitude of creative hobbies and lives abroad part of the year
My other friend who quit HER sucky job after saving up mucho dinero and now sails around the world
All of these friends are 40+ and unmarried.

Person I never in a million years would be envious of:
Woman who left NYC at 27 to marry into a midwest car dealer family and live in a giant lake house and drive a new SUV. [/quote]

OP, I'm not jealous of your niece's carefree 0.10% lifestyle, I'm jealous of these other 1% lifestyles a select few of my friends achieved. :roll: Also, those are much tougher and/or rely on too much luck/chance than merely being cute and targeting a rich boy in college.[/quote]

what? none of my friends' lives depend on lucl of chance. They depend on talent, initiative, and hard work. [/quote]

You live in DC and know NO trust fund babies? I call BS[/quote]

I live in the intellectual DC world. You live in a crasser, stupider world. [/quote]

Oh man, your friends sound amazing - but you are joking if you think the intellectual DC world isn't lousy with trust funders. How do you think that these kids can afford to go build a house from scratch, and sail around the world, and buy downtown DC condos while working at news websites, and do all these other things?

It's great stuff, that requires quite a lot of financial backing to be able to do.[/quote]

None of those friends of mine have trustfunds.  One will likely have a solid inheritance (nothing trust-fund scale, but some property that could be sold for a lot that she'll likely keep to live on instead).  They're all making it on their own. It actually is quite possible to have an amazing, adventure filled life without a rich husband OR a trust fund.  (My friends do have many advantages of relative family prosperity, but we're talking "normal" help with college tuition etc, not a multi-million trust fund.)

I only know 1 actual trust fund baby, and he's super annoying. I would never hold him up as an aspirational figure.    [/quote]

Plenty of these kids have trust funds that are not in the multi million dollar range. They have enough to take chances, and not to need professional stability. To do glamorous fun things instead of putting on a stupid suit and going into a stupid office. These kids don't dress like Ivanka Trump - often they live in group houses and wear shabby clothes. You only know they have trust funds if they tell you about it, or if you figure out that there is no chance in hell they could be doing what they are doing without family support.

I know this because I know these people. I know it is also possible to live like this without a trust fund, because I have done it - I've traded stability for adventure, savings for excitement, etc. I work as a writer, which probably tells you all you need to know. I also know that people have mistaken me for a trust funder (a very very shabby one), while really I am just bad at holding down a job.[/quote]

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