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Sorry, but you AND your DH just sound like insufferable caricatures of rich and poor people and generally sound like a really bad fit.  He thinks education and cultural experiences don't matter at all?  And you think it's important to spend tens of thousands a year on their activities?  Yeah, you both just sound like jerks.  Why are you married? [/quote]

You sound very angry.

One season of a travel sport my kid plays costs ~7k. A season of competition dance is about the same. We have three kids. They're doing things August-June. It's really not too hard to spend tens of thousands on such things. That's not even UMC, in my opinion, because it's not as though only the children with UMC parents are participating in these things.

And again, he has these viewpoints because where he grew up, there wasn't money for or importance placed on these things. If you graduate high school and marry someone from down the street and stay in the same neighborhood you grew up in (with basically your entire family within 20 minutes because no one moves away) then you've "made it".  And as a PP said, there is a sense of pride in these things. To not "give in" to things they consider to be fancy or for rich people. An example is my son plays lacrosse and hockey. Those are called rich people sports where he is from. And paying this much for dance is literally unheard of...like they legitimately didn't know competitive dance for girls this age was a thing. And traveling out of the country? They had no money to do so. So if it was good enough for his family, then it's good enough for everyone else.

To me it sounds like you are the one out of touch with various socioeconomic classes. [/quote]

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