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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Well you should have been saving their whole life.[/b] If you can't afford it for whatever reason, then the kid can pay their way through community college. Not everyone is guaranteed college. [/quote]

Get a life. It’s not so easy for everyone to save up hundreds of thousands of dollars. You don’t know what other expenses they’ve had, how long they’ve been feds, or anything else about them. Save your unhelpful moralizing. [/quote]

Most dual feds make 200-400k, more than many others.  Some of it is lifestyle choices.  [/quote]

NP. The people here wagging their fingers at feds need to grow up. Do you not have any concept that there can be expenses like medical issues, chronic conditions, caregiving or care facilities for older relatives, and myriad other expenses YOU don't know about from your perch on your high horse? Just citing what you think "most" dual fed couples make is not helpful. You don't know where they have to live for their jobs and how expensive that area might be, either, even if they're frugal . Just stop the empathy-free blather about what feds "should have been saving" etc. People have lives and expenses beyond just stuffing 529s with an ideal amount of cash. Damn, the total lack of thinking or empathy here is sickening. (And no, I'm not a fed or married to one, I just get sick of parent-bashing whenever someone comes on this forum worried about paying for college.) [/quote]

Get a grip. Two fed households are in the top 10% of earners. I'm not buying that people can't put away 3-5K a year on those salaries. Why not go the other way and ask what kind of cars they are driving, how many vacations they take, how many travel sports they participate in, etc.? The truth is, most people do not prioritize college expenses. That's perfectly OK, but not one I would choose for my children (and we make much less than two feds).[/quote]

I hope when you are low, some sanctimonious opinionated person doesn't go out of their way to make you feel worse. I hope you experience kindness, so that you can learn to speak with kindness. Whatever these folks were making, they are facing going down to ZERO. They might have prioritized saving for state schools and figure they'll cash flow some of it too. That would be perfectly rational. But you're acting like you know the reason is lifestyle choices. I doubt you're open to feedback, people who respond like you rarely are, but it'd be so good for you to take in that kindness costs you nothing.[/quote]

It has nothing to do with sanctimony. The OP was entirely hypothetical. I think CC/military/gap years are perfectly valid and wise options.[/quote]

Of course those are perfectly valid, and even helpful suggestions. No problem with that. Problem was with the judgy crap about lifestyle choices. The point is that the poster could have made those same valid suggestions without assumptions that they're driving fancy cars and taking vacations and that the OP didn't prioritize saving.[/quote]

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