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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I make $100K, $180K household, and we have a comfortable middle class life. There's not much I want that we don't have.[/quote]

NP. I’d love to know, where you live now, where you grew up, where did you go to college, how much debt did you graduate with and how much help did you have from family to pay for college and with purchasing a home?

What is your racial/ethnic background? 
How much guidance did your parents/family provide on getting started in life? Do you have kids? [/quote]

NP - No one needs to provide you a backstory. You clearly have an internet connection so are therefore better off than the vast majority of the world.[/quote]

Sure, nobody is obligated to provide a backstory but I'm with PP wanting to know more info, because it definitely seems like there's something the OP left out.

So often people come into these thread being like "I don't know what everybody is complaining about, I make [$X] and live in a big house in a neighborhood with great schools and never want for anything!" and it turns out they bought their house for $400,000 in 1997 or their parents gave them $800,000 for a down payment which is great for them but completely useless for the people who actually have to pay for things on their own in the present day.

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You are assuming people are leaving out that they got help, or didn’t have student loans, or whatever.

In my case (not the PP you were questioning) the reason I have a $250k HHI and everything I need and many things that I want, and feel well off, is that I am satisfied with things that many people don’t find acceptable. My house is a 1950s 1200 sq ft cape that needs work, in a neighborhood where everyone else’s first language is Spanish. I have only one child. I really couldn’t care less about cars. Does it go? Fine, I’m happy. We haven’t been on any international vacations, and we’ve never been to Disney. I shop at Food Lion, and they don’t even carry things like nice cheese and olives or expensive cuts of meat.

BUT. I love my job, I love my kid, I love my spouse. We laugh a lot and do fun things together. We save for retirement. We go on vacation and stay in the woods.

You probably see my life as unacceptable, but I see it as a very good life.[/quote]

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