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[quote=Anonymous]This is probably a far smaller "fall" than OP was thinking, but I grew up here in D, in a nice single family home in AU Park. We could afford private school, vacations, summer camp, etc.

Fast forward 20 years and my wife and I are definitely priced out of any of that.  We own a house, but east of the river was all we could afford.  We don't want kids but there is no way we could afford them even if we did, and forget about private school.  We had to skip our (usually fairly modest) vacation this year because we don't have the money for it.

Is it disappointing that I can't have what I had growing up? Is it annoying when my relatives make ignorant comments about my lifestyle thinking that we still live in a city where a $100K HHI can let you live west of the park? Absolutely, but that's life.  I don't feel entitled to anything simply because my parents had it. It's like that old line on the Cosby Show: "Your mother and I are rich, you have nothing."

Maybe one day I'll work my way up to that, maybe not, but my life is my life and the responsibility for what I have falls only on me, as does the responsibility for being happy with what I do have.[/quote]

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