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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think how you are doing financially has a lot to do with how old you are/when you bought your home.  DH and I make just under 200K and also feel very comfortable in the day to day, but we bought a very small home in 2006 that has lost over 1/3 of its value so we're a little stuck and getting the cash to dig out of that is difficult.  Had we been in a position to buy even a year or so earlier, we would be in a much different financial position.  (And, our house is close in, walking distance to metro, in a good neighborhood, but neighbors have short saled until the price dropped drastically).  We also have two young kids in DC daycare, which isn't cheap.[/quote]

So I am doing well financially because:
- I bought my house in 1996 and paid what I felt the house was worth
- I didn't choose to have kids

And you are to be pitied because
- you paid way too much for your house because you just had to have it right then even though by 2006 pretty much everyone knew housing prices were about to implode
- you chose to have two kids
- you choose to put them in daycare

I'm sorry, but if you and I make the same amount of money, we are doing the same financially. We just made different choices about how to spend our money.

If I choose to spend my entire paycheck on lottery tickets, am I justified in wanting a tax break because I have no money left to spend on food?[/quote]

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