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[quote=Anonymous]I left home at 17. College job grad school etc. I lived in dc on 13,500/year in 2000. I had a stipend/presoc fellowship , I lived in a total dump and lived when I could. I longer take th cockroaches or the screaming family upstairs who routinely led t their baby to crawl unattended around the stairs while they fought.

Two years later those same fellows were given 18k and housing included because it became clear that dc was starting to get expensive (of course what came next was really unexpected). The I my was I was able to get any financial foothold was buying a house in 2004 and selling later and moving to cheaper place.

Both dh and I have been in creative and non profit fields. We have never made a lot of money but enough. However we are seeing our parents burn through their funds with memory card and assisted living as we have no idea what the future holds for our kids, given the self destruction of the United States and AI. One kid is resilient and adaptable and high achieving but the other is probably not going to launch before mid 20s, despite all our efforts(therapy, private schools, etc). So now we worry about supporting g our parents and our kids for far longer than we anticipated.

I’m past worrying about me. We are okay, even if dh (fed) is fired we will manage somehow. But future for our kids looks grim.  [/quote]

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