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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 24896422, member: 27832&quot;]General location, timing and circumstances of the home purchase, if you don&#039;t mind sharing?</p><p><br /></p><p>Around here, the median home price is around $425K. Being mortgage-free by age 28 in <i>this</i> market is a pretty heavy lift. (Although I guess if you made $55K <i>every</i> year<i> from birth</i>...)</p><p><br /></p><p>And then there&#039;s college tuition. I started school in 1980. The cost of living has gone up by almost four times since then -- but the cost of tuition, room and board at my alma mater has gone up by <b>TEN TO TWENTY times</b>. (I earned a scholarship for $1500/year, and as I recall that covered nearly all of tuition, room and board. This year, it&#039;s closer to $30K.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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