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Anonymous wrote:These responses are tone-deaf. These are people touting their own reasonableness and sensibility and overlooking their extraordinary privilege to have jobs that allow them to save so very much. People living hand to mouth can be as sensible as they want but that kind of money is never going to pile up.

Privilege? I grew up poor and put myself through college and medical school.

Anonymous wrote:These responses are tone-deaf. These are people touting their own reasonableness and sensibility and overlooking their extraordinary privilege to have jobs that allow them to save so very much. People living hand to mouth can be as sensible as they want but that kind of money is never going to pile up.

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Anonymous wrote:What kind of a question is this, OP? Seriously?
My boss and his wife make $ 1.5 million+ each year. They live in a $2 million home. Easy-peasy for them.

Why are you posting as different people?

Are you mentally ill?

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Anonymous wrote:What kind of a question is this, OP? Seriously?
My boss and his wife make $ 1.5 million+ each year. They live in a $2 million home. Easy-peasy for them.

Why are you posting as different people?

Anonymous wrote:I have a feeling most folks here aren't in their early 30s. I didn't buy in the 90s. I was in high school

Anonymous wrote:What kind of a question is this, OP? Seriously?
My boss and his wife make $ 1.5 million+ each year. They live in a $2 million home. Easy-peasy for them.

Anonymous wrote:LOL, um they probably make more money than you? How can you not figure that our on your own?

Anonymous wrote:I bought my first home for $139K in my 20's. Paid it off and sold it for $315K after 13 years. Bought current house for $710K 10 years ago with 25% down. Will pay off in another 13 years (less if I refinance which I'm working on now).

And for all those who think this is impossible, it is still possible now. There are still good homes under $150K in PG County where I live, that have rising equity. You can repeat this cycle there. But most here would never live in PG County so they end up house-poor or living in horrible overpriced tiny old homes.

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Anonymous wrote:These responses are tone-deaf. These are people touting their own reasonableness and sensibility and overlooking their extraordinary privilege to have jobs that allow them to save so very much. People living hand to mouth can be as sensible as they want but that kind of money is never going to pile up.

Getting educated, finding and then keeping a job by working like a dog is not a privilege. Sitting on your butt playing your PS4 while drawing government checks is. Cut the rainbow BS.

For one government checks have never been enough to sit on ones butt and play PS4. For two , no socio economic group has the monopoly of working 'like a dog' . If anything , the laborers whose sweat and muscles pave the streets , pick the fruits in farms, drive your kids school buses,change your grand parents diapers in nursing homes and so on . These people although providing extremely critical labor aren't able to sit pretty in $800k homes . You're the perfect definition of morally bankrupt , that education and job hasn't stopped you from a having a shitty ideology .

Seriously? The problem with you Liberals is that you're so blind to your own ugly judgment and higher-than-thou pronouncements. You're so convinced you're right and your liberal education brainwashing is the Truth that you're prepared to call names and cast judgment on anyone who dares to disagree.

Frankly, plenty of people work like dogs. Some make lots of money on 90 hour work weeks. Some make less money on 90 hour work weeks. But none of those people are the ones referred to here who collect checks and don't work. And don't pretend you know so much that you can say people "never" do that. Plenty do. You just choose to ignore it because it's not in keeping with your rainbow unicorn BS.

cmon - i'm not the poster you're responding to, but you can be privileged AND work like a dog. It's not mutually exclusive. Yes, me and DH work a lot and save a lot. BUT we also were lucky too - born to educated parents with good prenatal care, nurturing families, book- and museum-filled childhoods, safe, clean communities, best public schools and parents paid for college and grad school. That certainly put us in a great position to be able to work hard and be successful. So yes we work very hard - but so do plenty of other people who make way way less than we do.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These responses are tone-deaf. These are people touting their own reasonableness and sensibility and overlooking their extraordinary privilege to have jobs that allow them to save so very much. People living hand to mouth can be as sensible as they want but that kind of money is never going to pile up.

Getting educated, finding and then keeping a job by working like a dog is not a privilege. Sitting on your butt playing your PS4 while drawing government checks is. Cut the rainbow BS.

For one government checks have never been enough to sit on ones butt and play PS4. For two , no socio economic group has the monopoly of working 'like a dog' . If anything , the laborers whose sweat and muscles pave the streets , pick the fruits in farms, drive your kids school buses,change your grand parents diapers in nursing homes and so on . These people although providing extremely critical labor aren't able to sit pretty in $800k homes . You're the perfect definition of morally bankrupt , that education and job hasn't stopped you from a having a shitty ideology .

Seriously? The problem with you Liberals is that you're so blind to your own ugly judgment and higher-than-thou pronouncements. You're so convinced you're right and your liberal education brainwashing is the Truth that you're prepared to call names and cast judgment on anyone who dares to disagree.

Frankly, plenty of people work like dogs. Some make lots of money on 90 hour work weeks. Some make less money on 90 hour work weeks. But none of those people are the ones referred to here who collect checks and don't work. And don't pretend you know so much that you can say people "never" do that. Plenty do. You just choose to ignore it because it's not in keeping with your rainbow unicorn BS.

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Anonymous wrote:What kind of a question is this, OP? Seriously?
My boss and his wife make $ 1.5 million+ each year. They live in a $2 million home. Easy-peasy for them.

Doing what?