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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thornir Alekeg" data-source="post: 2358949" data-attributes="member: 15651">I live in the aforementioned Northeast, about 20 miles north of Boston.  As mentioned by other posters, if you want to live as an "affluent" person like in the article, yep, you need to make that kind of money.  But the reality is that most people do not own a 4000 sq. foot home, own two luxury cars, a summer home, eat out at fine restaurants each week, send their kids to private school etc. etc. It is by no means cheap to live around these parts, especially if you want to own a single family home in the suburbs, but it can be done.  My wife is a teacher and I work for a major pharma company.  We have a single family home ( 3 BR about 1600 sq. ft.) in a decent neighborhood, two kids (both in daycare, the largest expense, even more than the mortgage), and two cars.  We don't eat out or go out very often - we have two kids.  We don't own a summer home.  We do OK, although we do have to be careful about what we spend.  If one of us was to not work we would have to tighten our belts even more and we might not be able to maintain the current house.</blockquote>