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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Let's see, if you spent $2000 per year on lawn care, $3000 per year on house cleaning, $50K per year on a nanny (why would you need additional childcare if you have a nanny?!?) that's still only about $55K. You're saying that taking those expenses out from $300K plus taxes of say $75K, that you cannot otherwise live on $175K per year net. There are many, many families with HHI under $100K where one or both parents are working 60-80 hours per week just to make ends meet because they have very low salaries. Those workers have many of the same problems you have, they just have to make more economical choices. I'm sorry, but if you choose a high end lifestyle and spend all of your money, that doesn't make you more sympathetic. There are many people who make significantly less than you that have all of the same demands on their time, many of whom have to pick soime of the support that you have and still make ends meet. We make $200K, both work full-time, still provide for our two children, still get housecleaners, still live in a large house and we can still save for retirement, college, yada yada yada. And we find ourselves not onloy very comfortable but very lucky instead of overentitled like you.[/quote]

Icky humble brag. Go you! And don't even think of comparing yourselves with those "workers" with the "very low salaries"[/quote]

The point was that we feel rich, comfortable and very lucky at $200K and there are those at $300K or the OP at $500K who are whining about being middle class and barely making ends meet.

And those "workers" with the "very low salaries" are part of the reason that we feel rich, comfortable and lucky.[/quote]

Do you live in NW DC in a house and go to private schools?[/quote]

Living in NW D.C., in a house, and going to private schools are all choices people who feel circumscribed by those choices made willingly, though. [/quote]

Did you buy your first home after 2012?[/quote]

No, in 2005, though I'm not sure how that's relevant to the idea that buying a house in NW D.C. and paying private school tuition are entirely optional.[/quote]

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