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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think what’s hard for a lot of us is we grew up in a time when things were less competitive  but we grew up in families without a lot of money. So if you had the money, there was a lot of opportunity and you could join a swim club, join a gymnastics team, or get into a good private school as long as you could pay for it.

I remember thinking as a kid that I just needed to make money so I could give my kids those things. But now there is an order of magnitude more of people who are trying to get the same things, and in most places there aren’t more swim clubs being built, more competitive gymnastics programs being opened, or more elite private schools opening. We thought we could just earn more money and that would earn us access, but the finish line has been moved and the bar has been raised along the way.[/quote]

You probably focused too much on buying a home in the “best” school pyramid and/or that private school, unaware that living in such a place would make other things harder.

We couldn’t afford buying in those places, so we moved outside the beltway.

Lo and behold, we were able to join a swim club relatively easily, my kids made their sports teams, and they are getting a fine education at their public school and will get to go to college. None of those things are the fanciest, but does it matter? They are getting all of the benefits of the swim club and being on teams. That is far better than not having them at all.

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I think what you wrote is true for a lot of people. But I actually live out of DC/VA now in a mid-size city that unfortunately grew at a pace far faster than it has built new things. We don’t really have fancy schools or neighborhoods here on the scale of northern VA or parts of MD close to DC. That’s why this thread hits so close to home for me. If even second-rate, sort of dumpy cities have become crazy competitive just to access a pool and a sports team, that says a lot about the world.[/quote]

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