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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But we also live in Silver Spring, send our kids to public, chose daycare over a nanny. We also only buy used (nice) cars. I guess by some standards I would be considered cheap; 
I only need 4 pairs of jeans, I refuse to pay more than $60 for each pair 
I would never spend $500 on a purse 
We have a cleaning lady once a week and a landscaper
We go skiing and sometimes go to Europe and the Carribean (only every few years, our yearly trip is just md beaches) 
We buy organic food
Our kids go to camps in the summer (through the county) and we are members of the local pool
We fund our 401k's and our kids 529's 
I'm not really sure how much more we would need. 
Obviously people make different choices, but it seems to me that once you start making better $ you start thinking you deserve a certain level of things "I work very hard therefore I deserve this $800 Banana Republic jacket" etc, I have done this myself. 
It just seems like if you are having trouble living on this amount of $ then maybe you need to reassess your priorities 
Wants vs needs [/quote]

You live in [b]silver spring which is not desirable [/b]therefore your housing costs are low. If you lived in a cheaper area such as georgia the equivalent silver spring area would contain people of much lower income vs median in comparison to dc's income vs median. [/quote]

Not desirable says who?  We make $300K and CHOOSE to live in SS because we find it HIGHLY DESIRABLE.[/quote]

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