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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Money takes care of a lot of that feeling of insecurity, I've found. Our HHI varies between 500k-1m, depending on bonuses. We have a nice house in NW DC, drive expensive cars, send two kids to private school, take lavish vacations, and have ample savings. It's nice not to have to worry about money. We both went to private universities that are in the top fifty but not top twenty. So more like middling privates. Think schools like Tulane or Carnegie Mellon.

Incidentally, it has also convinced me that you don't *have* to go to a top school to end up financially successful. I know too many people who went to no name schools and are now 1% earners to think differently.[/quote]

Tulane is indeed a middling to below average private, but Carnegie Mellon is better than that.  So buck up![/quote]

Neither of us went to either of those schools. The point is, we didn't go to top twenty big name schools and yet still do well financially. Better than the vast majority of the population. So while I still wonder occasionally what it might be like to come from that type of background (super preppy east coast, sailing lessons, family home on Martha's Vineyard or Nantucket, etc. etc.), I feel pretty satisfied with where we are now. We have all that we need and most of what we could want.[/quote]

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