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As long as you got your comfortable retirement than why not live like a king now and also later?
Well, I don't see the point of waiting entirely until I'm 40 something. Before I had kids, I wanted to enjoy my life. Now I have kids, I want them to enjoy their childhood. If something happened and I died young, all that money saved for tomorrow is never enjoyed.
And I've financed things when it was available for 0%. Just because I can pay for something in cash, doesn't mean that I should. My money was invested to make more money, while I paid 0% interest on car payments. I don't see anything wrong with that.
My value as a person isn't related to how much money I have. I only have one life and I'm not wasting the best years of my life being a cheapskate. I'll wisely invest money for retirement and I always paid my credit card off at the end of the month, but I live now.
My value as a person is related to by Xbox360 gamerscore.
That's what they call superficial and materialistic. I didn't mean to insult anyone, and I didn't make this up. It is up to them to live like this, but don't look down to people who don't show off wealth/money who are not like this. In many cultures showing off wealth is considered a personality flaw. Again, I didn't make this up.
So I'm just wondering what is your range for an acceptable income for you all while/when you are/were dating?
I've dated a few male teachers so I'm ok with the salary. In my area, I do think anything under $60K is low, but if he's an otherwise great guy, it wouldn't bother me.
Most women these days, at least in the demographic of women I date, aren't even looking to be "taken care of." They don't need to be, because they make decent salaries themselves. They just want the guy to be able to pull his own weight so that they don't have to take care of him. It's amazing how many women out there with decent careers have stories of slacker boyfriends who sponged off of them.
+1.. I hear stories about this every day as I work with almost all women.
That's what they call superficial and materialistic. I didn't mean to insult anyone, and I didn't make this up. It is up to them to live like this, but don't look down to people who don't show off wealth/money who are not like this. In many cultures showing off wealth is considered a personality flaw. Again, I didn't make this up.
And in some cultures, it's not considered materialistic. It's just the way it is and a man is more desirable, the more he can provide for his family.
And in some cultures, it's not considered materialistic. It's just the way it is and a man is more desirable, the more he can provide for his family.
In this topic, I think most of us are referring to first world countries and not the global south where that is more common and women have a lot of legal barriers working against them.
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