A discussion thread where people who make 375k a year complain that they can't make ends meet.

[tosh]

12. I love the reply on page 9

at 8:58 this morning. Could this be credited to a DUer?

"Don't listen to those Redditors. They don't know what it's like living in the DC area. It's expensive. My husband makes $650K/year and we were having troubles making ends meet, what with day care, three car payments, country club memberships and our hat budget. But after taking a good hard look at our expenditures, we realized we needed to cut back. For instance, we paid our nanny Consuela $7.75/hr but she's from Guatemala, so she was getting paid a king's ransom. We simply cut her pay in half. She still makes more than her entire village and we saved some dough. Win-win.

For me, the problem became apparent when I realized the gold I dug wasn't nearly deep enough. I made the simple change of hooking up with various professional athletes in the area. Those Wizards and Redskins make plenty of money and that's really helped fill in the gaps...if you know what I mean. Sure you have to take a BBC now and again, now I don't worry about paying for oboe lessons.

Hope that helps you all. "