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Is it actually inaccurate though? Try to tell me a wife who wants to live in SV in her typical $2-3m home is going to be okay with moving to BFE and giving it a

• bumby 3y ago
  I mean, this is predicated on so many out-of-touch aspects it seems like it is written by someone in a bubble or on the far reaches of an antisocial spectrum. 1) not everyone needs or wants to live in SV 2) there are plenty of people who manage to “survive” on a home worth less than $2M-$3M 3) public schools are a thing 4) not everyone views the primary goal of a relationship as a transaction for a certain quality of life. “For richer or poorer” and all of that. It reads like those op-eds during hard times when relatively well-off people lament about how the economy is battering them too, because after the Lexus payments, and private school, and SAT prep courses, they are forced to scale back on things like their annual Aspen vacation. That can all be very true, but also completely disjointed from the experience of most people that it lands flat.