Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I love how all the people who make less money need to rationalize it by saying they *must* spend more time with their kids or *must* prioritize family more.
What a load. Some of us just happened upon jobs, through luck, education, smarts or whatever, that pay us more. You all come across as extraordinarily bitter.
Listen, we have a $1M home. We also have high incomes. We have dinner pretty much EVERY NIGHT at 7 pm as a family. We both volunteer at school (public) and have flexible enough jobs to take off for lunches with the kids, etc. We just simply MAKE MORE MONEY. I don't begrudge my friends who work just as hard, if not harder, at their jobs. Some are in teaching, journalism, etc. They work their asses off, spend LESS time with their kids, but have rewarding jobs...that pay a lot less.
It isn't that hard...
But you're bragging. (It's anon. So you could be lying.) You represent many on this thread who feel the need to praise how they've "made it" and just how flexible and wonderful their schedules are - all while spending major quality time with their kids.
I simply can't believe it's true in all honesty. Even to feel the need to brag anonymously is a cover up for insecurity.
I have rich friends. My father's friend just cut HIS DAUGHTER a check for over half a million for a condo in VA. She's one of 6 kids, btw. Yet you'd never look at them and realize how wealthy they are. And yes, I suppose it's "new money," as they aren't descendants of the Rothschild family. But they (all 6 kids and the parents) live in modest homes, shop at "regular" stores, and don't talk about money. (I know b/c I'm a close family friend.)
So again, this need to brag is brought on by some inadequacy.
Anonymous wrote:I love how all the people who make less money need to rationalize it by saying they *must* spend more time with their kids or *must* prioritize family more.
What a load. Some of us just happened upon jobs, through luck, education, smarts or whatever, that pay us more. You all come across as extraordinarily bitter.
Listen, we have a $1M home. We also have high incomes. We have dinner pretty much EVERY NIGHT at 7 pm as a family. We both volunteer at school (public) and have flexible enough jobs to take off for lunches with the kids, etc. We just simply MAKE MORE MONEY. I don't begrudge my friends who work just as hard, if not harder, at their jobs. Some are in teaching, journalism, etc. They work their asses off, spend LESS time with their kids, but have rewarding jobs...that pay a lot less.
It isn't that hard...
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:"my husband and I both work, make a combines gross income of $185K and can not afford an $800-1mil home
have 1 child."
Because you don't have 20%? I just refinanced an almost 900K house on a 175K salary. And yes, we save for college and retirement.
How much of that 900k did you refinance? Because unless it was $720k, then you're really not making a fair comparison. Our mortgage is $400k; we make about $250k; I can't imagine nearly doubling my mortgage payment. Of course, on top of retirement and college, we're also paying daycare right now, but still, a 720k mortgage on a 175k salary seems pretty steep.
Anonymous wrote:"my husband and I both work, make a combines gross income of $185K and can not afford an $800-1mil home
have 1 child."
Because you don't have 20%? I just refinanced an almost 900K house on a 175K salary. And yes, we save for college and retirement.
Anonymous wrote:Sr manager at a very large defense contractor, and a sr manager in sales for Microsoft. COmbined HHI just shy of $500k/yr. We also bought yrs ago and kep trading up.
Plenty of people in our neighborhood are lawyers, IT professionals, Congressman, doctors. All houses are are in $1.2 - $1.6m range.
We (and neighbors) are late 30s, early 40s.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: People frequently discuss the fact that they have advanced degrees and high paying jobs accordingly. Let me just say that I will be discouraging my children from getting a humanities PhD (DH)!
Signed,
Liberal arts graduate who married another liberal arts graduate and obviously didn't understand that a great-books education should be chased by a high-powered professional degree not more of the same...
Shit, why didn't anyone ever explain this to me? We'll live in PG forever!
Yes, but you still have your soul. The lawyers and MBAs sold theirs.
Why do people say stupid things like this? Oh, yes, someone who is well-educated must be absolutely TERRIBLE and have sold their soul. Ridiculous.
You think a law degree or an MBA makes you "well-educated"? Ridiculous.
By your measure, having a PhD in the humanities doesn't make you well educated. All of these degree holders know a lot about one topic, which doesn't necessarily make one well educated.
Signed,
JD who at least knows how to use the quote function on this site
Anonymous wrote:Even without buying and selling at peak, simple year over year inflation provides quite a boost to the balance sheet. My inlaws live in buttfuck nowhere in Virginia, bought their house for 20K in 1969. Worth over 300K now (never was a bubble in their town). They paid it off sometime in the early 80s. If they sold now, that's a ton of cash to plop down on a new home.
We've had a few years of down prices, but no one can seriously argue that housing inflation is over. It isn't, in fact it's up--look at rental inflation. One of the smartest things you can do for your personal balance sheet is lock in your housing costs with a fixed rate mortgage, especially now.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: People frequently discuss the fact that they have advanced degrees and high paying jobs accordingly. Let me just say that I will be discouraging my children from getting a humanities PhD (DH)!
Signed,
Liberal arts graduate who married another liberal arts graduate and obviously didn't understand that a great-books education should be chased by a high-powered professional degree not more of the same...
Shit, why didn't anyone ever explain this to me? We'll live in PG forever!
Yes, but you still have your soul. The lawyers and MBAs sold theirs.[/quote]
Why do people say stupid things like this? Oh, yes, someone who is well-educated must be absolutely TERRIBLE and have sold their soul. Ridiculous.
You think a law degree or an MBA makes you "well-educated"? Ridiculous.
By your measure, having a PhD in the humanities doesn't make you well educated. All of these degree holders know a lot about one topic, which doesn't necessarily make one well educated.
Signed,
JD who at least knows how to use the quote function on this site