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Originally Posted by Noah930
^^^ I guess that's part of the difference, ckissick. Full congrats on loving where you're living, and the hard work and sacrifice that went into making it work out. (And congrats to syncroid, too. Long live RMG!)
But I don't have a business. I don't have that dream home. A 5-minute walk, and I can get to a Rite Aid and Starbucks in a strip mall. I don't have that 2nd house in Santa Barbara. Other than friends/family (which admittedly is a big deal) I don't have anything material that I can't walk away from. I don't feel like I've "gotten mine" yet, and I'm supposed to be one of those villified "rich guys." I also have a lot of "liberal wacko" friends--most of them are--but they aren't the type to handle any sort of political teasing.
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I have been very fortunate. But I'm 61 now and worked my way up for a long time. What I see all the time around here nowadays are houses selling for 2 to 4 million to people in their late 20 and early thirties. (Not in our beach town, but "over the hill" in Silicon Valley proper. Houses here "only" cost 1.5 million.) They are invariably couples both working in high tech. I'm amazed at how many of them there are.