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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What you don’t get is that in high cost areas $100k a year means scraping by. This has been discussed ad nauseum on various threads. If you live in Kansas, $100k is great. In DC or any other places with a high cost of living, you can’t support a family on it at all. If you are single, that $100k after taxes isn’t enough to cover housing and food expenses. [/quote]

That’s bull. 100k is fine for a single person in DC with no kids.

I’m a new GS14, divorced and raising teens. I’m still able to save and looking forward to an early retirement. We do live in one of the more moderately affordable areas in Fairfax County and I will move somewhere with lower COL when I retire.

I have a coworker, a single middle aged lady who has been a 14 for years. She complains and says she’ll never be able to retire. But she lives in an expensive part of DC, buys clothes all the time, goes out to restaurants all the time. Some people are willfully ignorant. I do judge her. [/quote]

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