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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you talking about trying to get by on 150K?[/quote]

Yes, $150,000 or less.

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Then the answer is - "Yes!!"  Own our home, kids go to excellent schools, I SAH, we take an annual 2 week trip to the beach (even stay oceanfront, just our little family), we save $$ for college and retirement....

We do not eat out that much.  No fancy cars.  No yacht.  So we do have to rough it a bit.[/quote]

Get a grip. People are not stretched b/c they are buying fancy cars.  Or yachts.  It's about housing.  If you have SAH on $150k, what is your mortgage, commute for your DH?[/quote]

Not everyone has to have a fancy house and not everyone works downtown. I think sometimes that DCUMers believe the only way anyone lives is in a SFH with one or both spouses commuting into DC. There are jobs and homes in other places, you know. One of the keys to living well on very little is not trying to live like a lobbyist when you're not a lobbyist.[/quote]

You love the word fancy, eh?  Yes you can get by if you have a job in PWC and commute from Manassas and maybe you can find decent schools. But since the center of jobs is DC-Tysons, what do you do when your husbands has to changes jobs and gets his next on in McLean? You tell him to suck up the hr+ commute? Most people except the very wealth have pretty modest homes or town homes; the high cost is location which is all about sane commutes and good schools. Or should I say fancy public schools :roll:[/quote]

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