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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do you pay for slac? Or oos state schools? Like Michigan tuition is 50k out of state. My DS was accepted but we couldn’t justify the cost to attend Michigan when he could just go to UMD for a fraction of the cost. Just curious how do families pay for schools that are over 70k .[/quote]

Do you have such little imagination that you can’t imagine that someone might think differently than you?  [/quote]

No need to be snarky here. Just wanted to understand other people’s perspective [/quote]

Your responses (if you're OP) don't seem like you want to understand. You started by asking how we paid, but then you shifted into "How can you justify it?" which is a significantly different question.

I used to spend a lot of time on a travel forum, and one poster could not wrap her mind around the fact that some people would rather stay in an OKish hotel but really wanted their meals to be special. To her, what mattered was the special hotel. That's what gave her a sense of the place she was visiting. And I don't understand that at all, but I didn't try to tell her that she was wrong and expect her to justify her preferences.

Financially, the most sensible thing to do is to live in a small house, never remodel, drive beater cars, have no hobbies, take no vacations, shop at thrift stores/freecycle, live on potatoes, send your kids to whatever college is least expensive, and put all that money you're saving into index funds. Is that how you live?[/quote]

Financially, having kids is a huge mistake. ROI On kids is a huge negative number. They are resource sinks. Yet, most people will have kids, unless they want life to pass them. [/quote]

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