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Owning a single family home (and all the upkeep that entails)
Sending kids to college
Saving enough so we can have a (hopefully) financially secure retirement one day
Family vacations
Two cars
Making sure parents are taken care of

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The American dream is that everyone can access a middle class lifestyle.

A home of your own in a middle class community -- could be town house, or condo, or single family home depending on the cost of living and the make up of the community you live in.

State college, maybe after 2 years of community college, probably living at home.

A modest retirement

One vacation a year, probably visiting grandparents, or maybe camping.

A car, shared between the parents

Parents living with you

That's the "American Dream", and yes people are having trouble accessing it in today's economy, but you are not.  You are coveting a rich lifestyle, which even the people who believe in the American Dream recognize is not accessible to everyone.  [/quote]

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