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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can you and DH find remote jobs or jobs that are mostly remote and move somewhere with a lower cost of living so your money will go farther?  Also psychologists did a study and comparative wealth apparently makes people very unhappy, and it’s prevalent on the East Coast.  Lots of people with lots of money and a “keeping up with the Jones’”mentality.  This is common.[/quote]

This. For the amount of money that buys you a scraping-by-lower-middle-class lifestyle in the DC area, you could buy the nicest house in town in a lot of places in the Midwest or the South, and have money left over for nicer vacations, cars, etc. Private school and kids' activities are way cheaper here, too. This is how I'm maintaining my UMC lifestyle now that I'm an adult (and also how my parents did it. They always said that if you live in the Midwest in a smaller city, you can save so much money that you can fly to the big coastal cities and do all the cultural activities, museums, restaurants, etc., anytime you want. I have found this to be even more true now, as the coastal cities have gotten so expensive).[/quote]

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