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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a Fed and often see announcements in DC for higher grades often.  While it is tempting at times, I’ll gladly keep my GS 13 Step 8 in a much lower COL area.

Together we made $150k for a very long time.  We’re now at $170k but I’ll tell ya what kind of lifestyle $150-170k gets us here (FL).

4K sq ft house with a pool, kids in highly ranked public school system, we pay $2k per year for summer care only-max we ever paid, when they were in diapers, was $1,200/mo.  We have a boat with no note, newly remodeled kitchen, paid off vehicle for me, and spouse’s vehicle is within $5k of being paid off.  We have a housekeeper that cleans twice per month.  We spend about $300/mo on kids extracurricular activities. The kids college accounts are 100% funded (FL Prepaid).  There are no state taxes here either.  We’re in the Disney Vacation Club and go to Disney World 1-2xs per year.  We stay in deluxe resorts every visit.  We vacation other places, sometimes we do staycations too.  We take either a vacation or mini vacation once every 3-4 months.

There is a FL Bright Futures Scholarship, thanks to FL lottery, which is extremely easy to earn and can cover most of tuition.  I know of many people who had FL Prepaid and Bright Futures, never worked in college, and earned an undergraduate degree with no debt.

My point is that $150k may be peanuts there but it affords a great lifestyle in other areas.  If I were you, I’d consider moving to somewhere that a $150k HHI isn’t struggling.

Oh and there are non-tangibles, such as tomorrow my kids and I will be bike riding at the beach when it is 65 degrees and sunny.  [/quote]

And you're on the DC board (for the DMV) responding to how do people raise a family here (the DMV) because???  :roll: [/quote]

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