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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree with the PP.  I'm a single mom to one school aged child.  I make around $50K per year and I feel well off.  We have enough to eat, we live in a safe home, my son goes to a great public school, I have enough to pay all of my bills.  Yet someone else would say someone earning $50K can't possibly live well in this area.  We can and we do.[/quote]

To me, living well is going on vacation, buying new clothes, having money to go out to dinner and shows, and contributing to charitable causes important to us.[/quote]

Yeah, I do all that (not shows though, not sure what you mean by that, though I can certainly afford $20 at the 930 club a couple of times a month if I was still into that), and I do it on a little over $90k a year.  Plus overseas vacations, activities for the kids etc.  A sizeable amount of our $1k a month food budget is on eating out ($3-400).  I am very comfortable on our current income.  I simply CANNOT fathom what people are blithely spending $10k plus on.  It is beyond my comprehension that people can be so wasteful and extravagant and judgmental.  WE are very lucky.  I know that we have much more income than MANY in DC and I appreciate it.[/quote]

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