Growing up seeing my parents struggle financially, it was a big push to not be like that as an adult. I don't own a mansion, but I lucked out and bought a house in my early 20s. Live comfortably, and able to provide my parents a comfortable life as well. I am very good with money and love to maximize credit card rewards. I work in healthcare.

I'll never forget in the summer of 2016, only three years after I moved here, I had to drive my son up to camp in Burrillville every day for a week, and oh my God. I would estimate literally every third house had a Trump sign, and every second house had a "NO NEW POWER PLANT NORTHERN RI" sign, which made me really angry because every house with a Trump sign also had a power-plant sign, and Trump was the guy running on increasing energy production from pollutants.

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I have a historic mansion in RI. Senior software engineer/security/operations person who is very good at their job. Didn’t buy in fancy neighborhood. No family money, and I don’t care for being entrepreneurial. I could make more likely, but I am lazy and have no hustle these days

Do you drive quickly thru RI 🤔

I build custom trumpets and trombones, am a freelance musician and teach music privately.

My gf and I rent, and aspire to be home owners, and also bring in a little over six figures together, so we’re in the same boat. Well, it’s a kayak. 2 actually. We own 2 kayaks. Economy kayaks, really. Those are, by definition, still boats…

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Chad Brown

I'm a research scientist at a university. I do okay at 130k a year. It's hard work and I live own a reasonable two family home I hoard for myself.

No side hustle here. In my mid 30s

re·tal·i·a·tion:

the action of harming someone because they have harmed oneself; revenge.

I’m in sales and make 6 figures, hubby is also in sales. We bought our house in Newport 16 years ago. I would never be able to afford to buy it now. The amount of wealth that has come to Aquidneck island the last few years is incredible. We have a housing crisis here, a million winter/ summer rentals. Not enough yearly rentals, if they are annual, they cost an arm and a leg. It’s a shit show.

SO and I are dinkwads. I’m a software engineer, she’s a physicians assistant.

Both teachers and bring in a little over 100k a year

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Props for realizing your mental health is more important than your financial wealth.

There are SO many people that are house poor, car poor, in debt up to their eyeballs yet project that they are doing well in life. Don't be fooled by appearances. My husband and I drive cars that are 19 and 11 years old, live in a non-glamourous neighborhood, and have saved enough that he will retire at 58 and our kids will go to college with no debt. You'd never know it by looking at us and that's exactly how I like it.

Nurses, pharmacists, PAs and NPs all make decent salaries too. My friend who's a dental hygienist pulls in 50/hr and 60/hr on Saturdays. Pair these people together and that's a solid 250k a year

We live in Jamestown - bought the cheapest, run down house on the island almost 20 years ago. Were still working on it to this day. We’re married, both have good jobs.

I can tell you that amongst the full-time residents, MANY were left a house, bought a house from a relative for cheap or inherited/were gifted money to be able to buy their houses. I actually can’t think of a single family who owns a ‘mansion’ that they bought/built with zero help. Most people just have regular houses though.

I really don’t know any of the thousands of seasonal people, so I can’t really speak to that situation.

I make whiskey related content on YouTube. However, I'm living mostly on SSDI due to my mental illnesses. I am fortunate enough to live in an apartment by myself thanks to that. Plus I'm in a more rural area which feels best for me.

If there was something there - he’d be indicted by now. With a slimeball like this I’m sure he cheats his taxes, could be easy to unturn.

Oh, the usual. I bowl. Drive around. The occasional acid flashback.

huh, ri isn't doing as bad as i thought it would be

The people I know in the big fancy houses have their own businesses or surgeons/speciality docs. We work in mental health (150K) and digital marketing (200K).

lmao this is the ultimate truth

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