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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not everyone is motivated by money and greed.

This is a really bizarre question to me. A lot of people just want to enjoy their day-to-day life rather than build up a Scrooge McDuck pile of coins to swim in?[/quote]

Haha, yeah I grew up not worried about money and followed a career I was passionate about. Huge regrets because in this day and age, a modest income consigns you to long commutes, substandard housing, and crummy schools. It’s great if you never plan to marry and have kids; maybe even okay if you marry someone with similar values, but find a DW who is content to live a simple life and doesn’t want kids, that’s a pretty narrow field. And I wanted kids, I just had no idea how expensive they were and neighborhoods with good schools are.

And you can say “move to X” where X is some random place not in a major city, well a) my passion career has no jobs there, I guess I could become a teacher eventually but likely will still be poor there 2) most cheap places, if you want good schools, housing has still gotten really really expensive over the last 10 years, even more so COVID era [/quote]

I’m the PP you are responding to. Real estate is hot everywhere right now because of the historically low interest rate. But prior to that, you could buy a really nice, updated home with character in my area for ~ 300-400k. 250k if you were willing to do the updating yourself. New construction was running at around 400-500k. We live in a small city near the Finger Lakes in NY. Definitely possible for teachers, nurses, cops, firefighters, professors, social workers, doctors and lawyers with a lot of school debt, etc. etc. to live well here. The public schools are considered very good and it’s a nice area with lots of opportunities for outdoor recreation. Lakes, gorges, ski, etc. You are paying a premium to live in DC. Which is fine but realize it’s your choice and don’t complain about it. There are other nice places to live.[/quote]

Teachers in rural areas make around $40k, so a $400k house is hardly affordable.  Even a $250k fixer upper only works if you are handy; doing things wrong and having to hire someone to fix it is even more expensive.

Nurses I think can get to $80k, same with state college professors.

Now if you marry two professors, maybe they have a chance, but you better not marry a teacher or someone who’s wants to SAH. [/quote]

I’m from a small town about two hours west of NYC—the most experienced teachers there make $90k+. Houses cost $200k for SFH.[/quote]

Teachers do well in NYS. Every state funds education differently. I'm the PP who lives near the Finger Lakes. Teachers with 20 years of experience definitely make over 100k in our area.

You won't get rich doing it but it's a good enough salary to have a nice, middle class existence where we live.[/quote]

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