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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]there are a lot of people in dc who work for the government, non-profit sector, or less than full-time (contracts/gigs).  these are not all especially high paying jobs.  not everyone is a 2 parent family either.  unless you purchased your home years ago, 100-200k does not leave a lot leftover after housing expenses.[/quote]

This. Lots of feds in jobs paying like 80 or 90k. Also people who work for the city. Lots of single parent households, too, or household where one person makes 100-150k and the other person works part time or contract because when they had kids, their income was less than daycare costs (but they had too much money to qualify for subsidized programs). So you might have one income at 140k and the other person making 30k working PT to make their childcare situation work out. Maybe once the kids are old enough, that person can go FT and the family will finally get up over 200k, but just barely.

One thing I am learning from this thread is how many public school families in DC are apparently totally oblivious to how other people live. I am hoping a lot of these posts are from people in upper NW where I do think the schools are mostly UMC people with few middle class families, because it's so hard to lottery into those schools and it's expensive to live there. But in the rest of the city, there are lots of middle class families in publics. We live in Ward 5 and this describes most people we know. We're all employed with steady income, we can afford things like a car and activities for kids. A lot of us live in apartments or in houses inherited from family that we could never actually afford to buy.

This thread is definitely making me feel invisible.[/quote]

There are lot of middle class families of the type you describe in public school in upper NW too.[/quote]

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