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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] how much do you think a 3 bedroom apartment or rental costs in a safe neighborhood where we can walk to work and school? [/quote]

I think this quote and others further up the chain show that this debate is based on very different points of view.  Many people, myself included, believe that there are lots of safe neighborhoods.  They may just not be within walking distance of work and school.  Or not within walking distance of a school you deem suitable (though many others have no choice).  And that is not getting into the notion that many people don't have the choice of a "safe" neighborhood.  So we all make choices -- you could have chosen to live in suburb with better schools and cheaper homes.  But you valued "a safe neighborhood where we can walk to work and school" and still lament that the choice means you can't pay for a private school and require financial aid.  Likewise, as someone else asked -- yes, a parent should be begrudged for buying a BMW if they are on financial aid.  Used or new, a BMW is significantly more expensive than the vast majority of other cars, by far, and the extra $10,000 or whatever could and should go to tuition.  I will never own a BMW because I will never be able to afford it.  Likewise, I might begrudge fancy vacations, even if someone else pays for them.  I can't afford vacations overseas and neither can anyone in my family -- I have been once my whole life, my parents have never been.  They paid for my college instead.  That is the way many others are affording tuition -- by making small and large sacrifices in their choices on all these issues, from cars to cell phones, to where they live.

I guess I am saying that people are arguing from very different perspectives and based on vastly different assumptions of what things are necessities in life. [/quote]

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