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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Social media has messed people up. Everyone thinks the average person should live like a king. The images of middle-class families in movies are anything but that. They’re images of UMC with jobs and problems of the middle class.

Look, there is nothing middle-class about 3kids in the best private schools, a $3 million, 6000sq ft house in a fancy part of town, two luxury cars on lease, several vacations abroad each year, completely funding retirement and college, and caretaking both sets of parents. That is not normal!!! Again, that is not normal!!!

Here’s normal. Kids are in an average public school, house is 2000-3000 sq ft, Honda and T  sedans and basic minivan or SUV, staycations or trips to the local beach or the grandparents house, partially funding retirement and probably relying on a small pension, cash-flowing in-state college, and parents in cheap living, downsized or multi-generational housing. That is normal!

OP, congratulate yourself, but get sober. [/quote]

NP Yes, this last part is similar to us, other than the fact that we travel overseas once a year to see my family. But we compensate for that by hardly ever eating out and other lifestyle choices to save during the year (only did town rec sports outside of school for instance).[/quote]

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