QueenOfCalifornia
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Tue Jan-06-09 11:38 AM
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"great" benefits. My husband has been with the federal government for 25 years and in one of the better paying positions. Still, living in San Diego is f-ing expensive. His raises are set and never match how much the cost of living is climbing. Our kids are the only kids in our neighborhood that attend a public school and we wonder how the other people here make the house payment go on lavish vacations every year, drive a new BMW send there 3 kids to private schools, pay all the bills and upgrade their kitchen every 5 or 6 years... :wtf: - We have a 10 year old car, my husband takes the trolley to his job downtown, we haven't been on any kind of vacation in over 5 years and before that we drove and stayed in a few nice hotels up the coast.... nothing "lavish" but it was away from home. People think that due to my husbands job, we must be getting paid a lot... Ha! what a joke... he works 60 to 70 hours a week most of the time and gets no overtime pay, none. His work load is ridiculous and bonuses went away with the Clinton administration.
There is no such thing as great dental insurance. It all sucks. I too had to have some dental work a few years back and my insurance covered part of the bill but we had to come up with $1,300 + out of pocket - I had 3 extractions and a couple of fillings. I wanted implants where two teeth our now missing but insurance will not pay for that and my option? Having some uncomfortable thing stuck in my mouth that I didn't want and still had to pay a bunch of money for... So guess what? I just have two missing teeth - granted, they are not in the front... BUT we should be able to have 2 implants paid for through the expensive insurance we pay for every month. We bought this house before the housing costs went through the roof here - That is the good news... If we had to buy a house now in the same neighborhood we couldn't begin to do so... I feel very fortunate to have gotten in here when we did.
We have a few doctors on our street - believe me, they are not suffering. They are driving brand new European sedans - they go to Italy and France for a get away - I can't afford to go out to dinner once a year where they go once a week. Are they more educated than my husband? Well it depends on if you think one advanced degree is "more" than another.
I can't believe how expensive it is to take our little dog to the vet - It is astronomical. She suffers from allergies and has to see a specialist - It cost us over $150 a visit and that is not for any of the meds she takes to control her problem. What do we do? Get rid of a family pet that all of us love? No... We do not have anyone help with the house keeping and I don't get new clothes and we go out to dinner as a family once a month opposed to going out 3 times. We give up any kind of a vacation and no HBO or Showtime. I worry constantly how we will pay the SDG&E bill - Decembers bill was just under $500. Five hundred bucks to have electricity and gas here... another :wtf:
Oh and about charging stuff? Ha! We had to use the evil cards to buy Christmas stuff for our two kids. It sucked but we draw the line on canceling christmas.
BTW, your wife rocks!
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