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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here again

wow i didnt think my little rant was going to generate such a long thread.

ok i forgot a few bills, like the gym, salary insurance, life insurance etc.... and also we only started making that much recently, it has not even been a year yet.

a good chunk of our salary also comes in the form of a yearly bonus, so we dont exactly have $7k left over on our checking account once the bills are paid. and what we do have left goes in the house currently.

the word "poor" was supposed to be taken in context of this extremely frivolous town. I just feel like i am doing something wrong when i see all these $2M+ homes and $100K+ car around me.

based on my reading this post it sounds like the DC version of the American Dream is to work a lot, pay a lot of taxes, visit museums, go on hikes, hang out with over-educated snobs who drive cheap cars and have little to show for at the end ... sounds a lot like Europe to me.....

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Dude, cut down on the hallucinogens. There just aren't that many $2 million+ houses and $100k cars in Bethesda. The housing stock is pretty normal, even dumpy in some parts.[/quote]

This. Or maybe I just don't recognize $100k cars when I see them since I know very little about cars. I live in Bethesda and drive a 5-year-old Hyundai Sonata. The other cars on my street range from beat-up Subarus to minivans. No one has a flashy car in this neighborhood. And they are all parked on the street (almost no one has a garage, half the houses don't even have driveways).

There are a lot of $1.2-1.5 million houses. I don't know who can afford to live in them, either. But clearly people do, so fine for them. There are also a lot of "teardowns" -- old bungalow-type houses that will likely be torn down the next time they're on the market. But at present people live in them and they definitely aren't making the salary you're talking about. [/quote]

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