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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A good salary would be $500k. Cost of living is so high. I don't see how you can live comfortably on less than that.
This is the average income on this board.[/quote]
Define comfortably PP?[/quote]

I agree, $500k would be comfortable. At $250k, you are still pinching pennies…watching grocery budgets, making hard choices on kid activities or educational opportunities, going on more affordable vacations, buying reliable cars. 500k gives you breathing room. [/quote]
When I read stuff like this, i can't figure out if it's a troll or if people are really that disconnected from real life. [/quote]

The other families on our block have only one parent working a full time job. They wouldn't believe our 50+ hour a week jobs - two of them - to be "real life" either. [b]When you work a lot more than the average person, you have a much higher HHI and financial goals.[/b][/quote]

How can people who are presumedly educated and make so much money be this obtuse? You realize that hard working does not translate into well off?  In fact, unlike DCUM would have you believe, working hard and making tons of money is the exception and not the rule.  And no, I am not taking about the uneducated working poor working two jobs to keep the lights on.  I am talking about MC and UMC folks. People working non-profits, academia, healthcare, management.  This assumption that anyone in the professional world who works hard is making 250k+ is skewed. [/quote]

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