Reply to I Live Comfortably on Less than $70K After-Tax in DC Area

Forum Index » Money and Finances

Reply to "I Live Comfortably on Less than $70K After-Tax in DC Area"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here, and my carpool just honked. I'll catch up later.[/quote]

How far do you live from work? You're not getting picked up for carpool until 8:45?

Sounds like the life. What time do you come home?

I don't think you recognize your privilege. Making $80K+ as a single person isn't the norm either. [/quote]
OP here.....if you MUST know, we work from 10 to 6 (flextime), but this morning one of us had a 9:30 meeting so we left earlier.

Also, as far as my "privilege," I do recognize it. I said I live very comfortably, which is why I posted - is [b]counter to all these people saying &80k is poor.[/b] (And they're saying that for a single person.) [/quote]

I earn less than 80k. Gross. I'm not "poor", but I'm not as comfortable as I'd like to be, mostly because I'm a single parent. Don't go bragging about how 80k is plenty and you're rolling in it, when that's your NET compared to other people's GROSS.

OP, you make 6 figures. Of COURSE you have enough money.[/quote]
She said she earns in the 90s, but only spends $70ish. Of course, she doesn't have a kid, which makes all the difference.

I don't think she was bragging, though. She (or he?) was just showing that it's not all the awful for a single with that income. Lots of people on DCUM were calling single people with that income poor, and she was snowing a different picture. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics