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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread is so stupid. I make $150,000 a year and I feel very rich (though with no kids).  That doesn’t mean I have no limitations on my spending, and someone who makes $850,000 a year we also have limitations on their spending.

I’m Republican but threads like this pull me somewhat more leftward. Above a relatively moderate income/net worth, money just becomes, at best, about these trivialities or, worse, about greed and status-chasing.[/quote]

Did you read the lady’s post? You cannot provide a strong education and a room for every kid in a safe part of NYC on 850k. She’s not asking for a private jet and house on Jupiter Island, more just the bare minimum. [/quote]

You absolutely can provide a strong education and a room for every kid in a safe part of NYC, and for a lot less. It might not be a big room, and private school, in Tribeca, but NYC is a big city and a lot of the posters are incredibly narrow minded in how they imagine a happy life in NYC.  I think biglaw expectations, not NYC, may be the problem here. [/quote]

Please give an example. And if it is living in Jackson Heights and using PS 101 to test into Stuyvesant then that is not “a happy life in NYC”[/quote]

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