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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP. dcum is not the place to seek "reality." Most people are living like you rather than the extremely rich on here.  As long as you are enjoying your life and able to do the things you want, keep doing what you are doing.  [/quote]

Agreed it's not a great place for reality, but people talk very openly about money on here whereas most people are not that forthcoming IRL. We've known for a long time that we are in a different financial situation that many of our friends and peers, but after a couple months on these boards I started to wonder if we are a weird outlier. I'm glad to hear there are others in similar financial situations. I think the reason we are alone among our friends is because our educations but us in social circles with a lot of people who come from money or who went into very lucrative fields. So we just don't come across many people at our income level. Even in our jobs, we both tend to work with people who are the lower-earners in a 2-person couple, with the other person pulling in a big salary in law or consulting. I also feel that in the last 15 years ago, there has been a real shift towards higher earners among people who live in DC proper. When I first moved here (20 years ago), wealthier people refused to live anywhere east of Connecticut Ave, and many preferred Northern Virginia. That's changed a lot, obviously. I think we've gone from being at the high end of earners in our neighborhood to the middle or even bottom 50%. It's amazing how quickly that shift has happened.[/quote]

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