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[quote=Anonymous][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]Yeah, we don't live the way my parents did (who had some inherited money but weren't so good at careers - I posted above) but I don't give a rat's ass.  We have stronger and more successful careers and are paying our own way.  And we live like boho yuppies - an expression from the 80s I think?.  I love living in DC. I don't care that the furniture we bought is IKEA (interspersed with the inherited antiques) and that we have a crappy little house and that we hear gunshots now and then in the neighborhood.  I have friendly neighbors and I have access to the entire city and all the great things it offers.  I welcome the judgment of my relatives if they care to do that.  My parents have passed away and they might be scandalized by how we live - but I just don't care.[/quote]

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