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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also, [b]the median household income in DC is closer to 90K[/b]. So people saying they can't get by on 200K are big old whiners. Most people do it. What they mean is: I can't live in a house in Bethesda that looks like the one I grew up in on a household income of 150K. Which is true. But no one is entitled to live in one of the most expensive neighborhoods in the country on an upper middle class salary. Living in a neighborhood "with good schools" (quotes because we all know that good schools can be found in many neighborhoods) is a luxury good. Not an entitlement.[/quote] That $90k median is highly misleading. On the one hand, the poor get tons of subsidies (free housing, free meals, free daycare, free transit, etc). But once those subsidies phase out, you actually need to make a lot more than just $90k to be comfortable on your own. So a family at $90k is probably struggling to make ends meet in the DMV.[/quote]
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