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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are an UMC family living in an affluent competitive area (McLean). My kids are strong students and kids are very academically focused. Parents are well educated and have UMC jobs (lots of lawyers and doctors). Everything feels competitive whether it is music, soccer, baseball, swim or tennis. There are so many smart talented kids. My youngest is in first and parents are talking about AAP (advanced academic program) that they get screened for in second grade.

I see friends in other normal areas or out of state and it feels much less stressful and carefree. I was talking to a friend with a junior in college and they seem not stressed and content and satisfied with the child going to a non competitive college. The kid doesn’t have good grades or a high SAT score and they don’t seem bothered.

Do you think MC or average people are happier?[/quote]

Oh please. This is so typical. Just look at history - always this romanticism of the peasant or the poor. How simple and happy their lives are. I love Russian literature and this nostalgia and yearning for simplicity associated with having less money is what I’m getting from you. Grow up. Living in a capitalist society where many people don’t have secure housing or food and lack basic medical care is horrible. My husband and I are in the highest tax bracket and I hate it because most of our income is W2 income but the big picture is that we have a vastly unequal society and it is not better to have less money. [/quote]

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