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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Get a grip. You're rich. You are jealous of richer people. Get over yourself.

I was at 280k combined income with ex in late 40s.

I am now divorced and happier than you with my 100k job. You live in a bubble and you need to stop being jealous of other richer people. You are better off that MOST people.[/quote]

Yeah but you are old and bought a house when homes were cheap. Changes entire life trajectory. [/quote]

I am not old. I did not buy when houses were cheap. I just bought. [/quote]

So you never owned a house when you were married?[/quote]

Yes, I owned a house. He kept it. I did not get half. Only bought it 3 years ago. No growth in equity to sell. Only in the house 18 months then divorced. We moved a lot.  I also paid off 70k in student debt from
1999 by age 31. I am early 40s. I do not have wealth like op. At all. I still managed to buy a townhouse 6 months ago. I have no great windfall due to age. Way to make huge assumptions. I have a kindergartener. No where close to being a grandma (ex is late 40s). It is not like we owned a house for years and years and had a lot of equity like you assume. Not the case. OP has no reason to complain.[/quote]

So you bought your first house and had first kid in your 40s?  Yeah, there is sure more to your story. [/quote]

NP. This is fairly common for people with PhDs (especially dual career), it takes so long to find permanent jobs for two in the same place, and they often don't pay as well as fields like consulting, sales, law. I often feel like the "poorer friend" compared to my doctor and lawyer friends in the DC area, most of my scientist friends got jobs in LCOL areas so their similar income goes further. [/quote]

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