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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you serious? People saying you can't afford it have a spending problem. We paid for a pricey secular k8 when we were under 200k and are now paying 50k at just over 200k. we have probably a bit less in equity than you if I'm understanding you correctly that you have 800k equity and still 750k mortgage left to pay.

An expensive SFH is a CHOICE.
Nice cars are a CHOICE.
Fancy gadgets and trips are a CHOICE.
Spending on nicer clothes and nails and hair salons are a CHOICE.

You can choose cushy or you can choose education. Pretending you can't "afford" it on your salary is utter nonsense.[/quote]

Exactly this. I don’t use a house cleaner - I clean myself. We rarely eat out. Our vacations are visiting and staying with family. We don’t buy expensive clothes or handbags or watches. We have an ordinary car. Etc etc. Life is about choices. [/quote]

Yep.  And your choices are just plain nuts.  [/quote]

Our choices are nuts? Lol yep, says a completely ignorant, idiot. [/quote]

You will never convince and many others that it’s worth so much sacrifice for a private school education.  It’s like you’re deifying your kid.

Any attentive and educated parent can see to it that their kid gets a good education in a public school.  They don’t have to deprive themselves to such a great extent.  They just don’t.  It’s odd AF to think otherwise. [/quote]

NP. For us, it’s partially selfish. Sure, we could move out of the city, but we wouldn’t like it, and our commute would suck. So we want to indulge ourselves, but we also want want our kid to get a better education than is available at our zoned public school (a greatschools 2). Hence, private.

We have prioritized our kid’s education AND our location preferences over a lot of other discretionary spending.  It doesn’t feel like a “sacrifice”. It feels like spending money on what is important to us.

And like above posters, we are full pay at less than $250k HHI. It’s fine because we do not prioritize clothing, cars, expensive travel, etc. We don’t feel deprived because we don’t really care about that stuff.[/quote]

And that’s great that you’ve figured out what works for you.

People who don’t “sacrifice” for private have been criticized a few times on this thread though.  So I’ll say that there are all kinds of different ways to prioritize your kids and every family is different.  It might be private school, but some kids benefit from the house with more space, the yard, the parent who works less and is around more, a vacation here and there, etc., etc.  I’m tired of reading the problem is parents who selfishly pick fancy cars and designer clothes.[/quote]

So, you think a family making $300 should get to live very comfortably and get a lot of aid over a family living modestly and making less.  We could benefit from a bigger house but I don’t want a big mortgage.  We would love a vacation but don’t.  Life is about choices.  [/quote]

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