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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You guys are crazy if you think this is just the DMV.  Every rich suburban area in the US is like this any more.  My cousins in ~Tulsa OK~ are living the country club, travel sport, Euro vacay lifestyle.[/quote]

Well yeah but they are doing that while living in 4 bedroom updated or newly built home that cost less than 500k. Possibly way less -- you can get houses in the Jenks school district (one of the best public school districts in the Tulsa area) for 350-400k that are over 2k square feet and have fully updated kitchens and baths.

Even making Tulsa salaries that's going to leave tons of money for kid activities and vacations. You're talking about having a nice house with great schools while paying a mortgage of less than 2k per month. Is there ANYWHERE in the DC area you could do that -- no. You can live a very upper middle class lifestyle in Tulsa for less than 150k in HHI. So white collar professionals like lawyers and doctors have more money than know what to do with. You get a sahm plus the country club and the travel sports and the foreign travel with one of those jobs. But even people with jobs that require a lot less education can live really comfortably. With two incomes you are golden.

That's why this area is so much more competitive. You have to work so hard and make so much money just to live half as well as a construction foreman married to a nurse in a suburb of Tulsa. Sure there are nice things about living here that will always trump Tulsa -- blah blah blah the museums and the job opportuntiies and all the smart people and living in the seat of government etc. But all that stuff comes with a cost. All things being equal I'd rather live in DC than Tulsa. But all things are not equal. DC is way way way more competitive in every way whether it's professionally or socially or the housing market or education. It's harder to live here.[/quote]

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