Savings (retirement & college) are totally the things that just got skipped.
I have friends with kids going to college now, and they mention the shock of talking to neighbors who basically admit as their kid hits 18 "they got into all these good schools but I can't afford them".
I dunno man, you choose to live in one of the most expensive cities in the world, prep your kid for high achievement, and then fall flat on your face in the final lap.
Guaranteed these are the same people who will be working til they die too.
I’m with you, I’d rather a “boring” suburb. But the whole I’m poor on $500k genre can be pretty tiresome sometimes. Yeah, you have to make tradeoffs, but that doesn’t mean you are poor.
I have friends with kids going to college now, and they mention the shock of talking to neighbors who basically admit as their kid hits 18 "they got into all these good schools but I can't afford them".
I dunno man, you choose to live in one of the most expensive cities in the world, prep your kid for high achievement, and then fall flat on your face in the final lap.
Guaranteed these are the same people who will be working til they die too.
All this to live on the Upper East Side?