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We are a family of 4 living near downtown Bethesda in a little house on a 120K income. We have family abroad and visit them every year so we live frugally to save for our international trips, as well as for college and retirement.

I understand you're venting, but I still find your vent extremely ignorant and offensive.

Make it work, OP.
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Sorry i didn't mean to offend you but if you don't mind sharing, i would be very interested to know you monthly budget. You obviously dont have the 4 kids in daycare? are you renting? or did you buy a long time ago?

I have family overseas too, and that flight alone is $4500 for 3 people in the summer.
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PP you responded to. 
Two children (not four), currently in public school. 
When they were in daycare we lived elsewhere in a one bedroom to save for our house. 
House bought in 2010 in the 700K range. Our 120K HHI is recent, prior to that we made much less, and still managed to buy the house.
I hear you on the plane tickets. Last year we had to make THREE trips overseas for funerals and it killed our budget - no vacations this year, no repairs on the house and serious belt tightening.

Ever since we've lived in this country, OP, we have watched our every penny. We could have lived better back home, but there is no real future there in the long-term. We practice delayed gratification and impulse control on all spending. I'm assuming you don't live like this, nor do you want to! I was surprised at the recent thread on DCUM which started bashing frugality, as if it were a bad thing.
Yet frugality has allowed to us to stretch our dollars this far. I'm grateful that we've made things work.

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OP Here... Congrats if you have done that without family money.... We should learn from you ....

I used to be frugal myself, but in the last years i just caved in, too much work and stress, too much money in and out to keep track of properly ... America got me in the end :)[/quote]

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