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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Could Care Less" poster sounds like an obtuse bitch.

[b]Usually it's the ones who consider themselves at the top of the HHI scale talking about how "it doesn't matter" and they don't care about keeping up with the Joneses. Of course you don't, sweetie.[/b]

I never cared much to glorify myself, and will happily wear the same jeans and sneakers for the rest of my life, even if our income goes up. However, as someone whose already modest HHI was cut in half so that DH could follow his career aspirations (I had to quit my job due to the relocation) IT TOTALLY SUCKS. We can't afford any vacations or trips at all. We can't eat out, ever- that would be fine if DH cooked or I wanted to cook all the time. I spent about 50 on kid presents for Christmas. My son wants to do (normal) activities with his friends that we simply can't afford to do at all. We've had to decline invitations.

OPs situation isn't anything like that. There are places in McLean that are actually pretty normal, although expensive. If vacationing in Florida instead of Hawaii is the kind of change she'll have to make, that doesn't sound too bad to me.
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LOL - this is PP who you are talking about and actually we are at the bottom. We are happy without a bunch of material shit.[/quote]

Well, good. I wasn't really talking about material things. Out of curiosity, do you live in a place where there many others are similar SES?[/quote]

The area live in has a broad array of incomes (I say this basically speaking of our elem school boundaries because those are the families we interact with). We are probably lower to the bottom but not the very bottom.  [/quote]

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