The planet is the Bethesda Bubble.

Anonymous wrote:I am the PP nurse. I never worry about bills. I make a helluva lot of money.

What planet do people around here live on that 100K is not an amazing amount of money??

Great question. Ironically it is usually the morally bankrupt.

Anonymous wrote:I am the PP nurse. I never worry about bills. I make a helluva lot of money.

What planet do people around here live on that 100K is not an amazing amount of money??

When I had two kids in daycare (also a single mom with similar income, ex was a deadbeat). Once they were in school, much more comfortable.

Anonymous wrote:I am the PP nurse. I never worry about bills. I make a helluva lot of money.

What planet do people around here live on that 100K is not an amazing amount of money??

The ones that live in CC and Potomac, drive expensive cars, and belong to country clubs. Warped sense of reality. I know as my husband is a native and one of them (thinks $370K gross for us is "poor")

Parents we have met so far have been down to earth and nice. Getting to know them has been great. I've found the communication from the school to be good, I get things (art work, communications from the school) sent home every day, and my kid has really enjoyed the immersion program. I find it really interesting that people have had a negative experience since I haven't talked to one parent who has, not that it doesn't happen of course. Just not to anyone I know.

I am the PP nurse. I never worry about bills. I make a helluva lot of money.

What planet do people around here live on that 100K is not an amazing amount of money??

100K per year for 2 people is affluent.

Do you not realize most families of 4 in this country live on less than 60K??

I'm not PP but have similar stats (single mom, Silver Spring, a little over 1$00K income before taxes but without child support) and I'm middle class according to any calculator you want to plug the statistics into.

Which...feels about right. I can afford one "away" vacation a year, don't worry about groceries or making the mortgage, and have enough income to pay for extracurriculars but not super high end elite camps and the like.

So, yeah, middle class.

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Anonymous wrote:I am a single-mom nurse in OTES boundaries (Silver Spring) and make about 100k per year. I make more than my father ever did, and i feel absolutely affluent.

Some of you people are nuts.

A single mom on the cheep part of town and “feel” affluent. What’s the old adage of 95% people think they are middle class and above avg drivers.

The cheep side, huh?

Median American household income is $60k. You can call her poor (or pore, or pour, or however you might spell it), but she’s doing just fine.

Anonymous wrote:I am a single-mom nurse in OTES boundaries (Silver Spring) and make about 100k per year. I make more than my father ever did, and i feel absolutely affluent.

Some of you people are nuts.

A single mom on the cheep part of town and “feel” affluent. What’s the old adage of 95% people think they are middle class and above avg drivers.

I am a single-mom nurse in OTES boundaries (Silver Spring) and make about 100k per year. I make more than my father ever did, and i feel absolutely affluent.

Some of you people are nuts.

We are one of the many (it seems) teacher families who moved to OTES in-boundary for the immersion program. So far, so good.

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Anonymous wrote:I had never heard of that school and am surprised there are highly regarded so close to Wheaton. A good alternative for low income families

Your post is really offensive and not a low income school.

Well it isn’t an affluent school. It is a Wheaton school that has more SFHs than the avg for that part of the county even if if they run on the cheaper side. But the problem remains with decent elementary schools in marginal areas (as always) is the next level and the level after that when they combine with the not so decent schools that the local parents were happy to avoid initially.

Most of the families we know make $140-300K or more. Just because we don't choose to live in fancy overpriced houses doesn't mean we are poor.

Ahh the old the people in the poor part of town are the real rich people trope. Yes that is the most prevalent demographic group near Wheaton, 6 figure families

The median household income for the census tracts serving Oakland Terrace are around $100k-$140k. That’s not massive money but it’s also a median, so half are above and half are below. You can look it up here, but I don’t think you know where this neighborhood is anyway: https://datausa.io/profile/geo/montgomery-county-md

Any house is going for $400-800K+ so anyone who is very low income has owned the house forever or renting and even so the rents aren't affordable on that income. Most make twice that amount, if not more.

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Anonymous wrote:I had never heard of that school and am surprised there are highly regarded so close to Wheaton. A good alternative for low income families

Your post is really offensive and not a low income school.

Well it isn’t an affluent school. It is a Wheaton school that has more SFHs than the avg for that part of the county even if if they run on the cheaper side. But the problem remains with decent elementary schools in marginal areas (as always) is the next level and the level after that when they combine with the not so decent schools that the local parents were happy to avoid initially.

Most of the families we know make $140-300K or more. Just because we don't choose to live in fancy overpriced houses doesn't mean we are poor.

Ahh the old the people in the poor part of town are the real rich people trope. Yes that is the most prevalent demographic group near Wheaton, 6 figure families

There are a lot of young, higher income families moving into the area as the older, original residents are turning their homes over. We're $250 HHI zoned for OTES and not alone by a long shot. It's a very socioeconomically diverse student body.

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Anonymous wrote:I had never heard of that school and am surprised there are highly regarded so close to Wheaton. A good alternative for low income families

Your post is really offensive and not a low income school.

Well it isn’t an affluent school. It is a Wheaton school that has more SFHs than the avg for that part of the county even if if they run on the cheaper side. But the problem remains with decent elementary schools in marginal areas (as always) is the next level and the level after that when they combine with the not so decent schools that the local parents were happy to avoid initially.

Most of the families we know make $140-300K or more. Just because we don't choose to live in fancy overpriced houses doesn't mean we are poor.

Ahh the old the people in the poor part of town are the real rich people trope. Yes that is the most prevalent demographic group near Wheaton, 6 figure families

The median household income for the census tracts serving Oakland Terrace are around $100k-$140k. That’s not massive money but it’s also a median, so half are above and half are below. You can look it up here, but I don’t think you know where this neighborhood is anyway: https://datausa.io/profile/geo/montgomery-county-md

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Anonymous wrote:I had never heard of that school and am surprised there are highly regarded so close to Wheaton. A good alternative for low income families

Your post is really offensive and not a low income school.

Well it isn’t an affluent school. It is a Wheaton school that has more SFHs than the avg for that part of the county even if if they run on the cheaper side. But the problem remains with decent elementary schools in marginal areas (as always) is the next level and the level after that when they combine with the not so decent schools that the local parents were happy to avoid initially.

Most of the families we know make $140-300K or more. Just because we don't choose to live in fancy overpriced houses doesn't mean we are poor.

Ahh the old the people in the poor part of town are the real rich people trope. Yes that is the most prevalent demographic group near Wheaton, 6 figure families