General Discussion & Chat: We are in Spring, 1 by tombaak

tombaak wrote:
Dinu,
It doesn't sound that different from America at all! My husband is an eighth grade teacher and we spend 35% of his pay on medical insurance, and another 20% or so on medical bills not covered by the insurance. We do have a daughter who has a severe physical disability and uses a power wheelchair, so our medical expenses are higher than the average American i think. Things are getting very expensive, a great reason to have a vegetable garden! As for weddings, we have two daughters and i would love to give them a nice wedding some day, but i suspect after we pay for college, there may be nothing left. LOL When my husband and i got married we paid for most of our wedding ourselves, (we did get some money gifts from both sides of the family that we used for the wedding) but i know in India it is customary to have a large wedding. We did have a pretty big wedding (150 people) but we did most of the stuff ourselves and had family cook etc. It still cost quite a bit, but we were in our late 20's and had some of our own money. Here most of the people i know (aren't rich! LOL) have small weddings with just a few people, and maybe a party with more people someplace not too expensive, on a beach or a park or something. Many of our friends have just eloped, and got married where they had their honeymoon etc. no guests at all. Taxes aren't horrid, but i live in a better state than some as far as that is concerned.

Oh, and here is a picture of Lake Tahoe, so you don't think Nevada is only for gambling :) I live about an hour from here. At a much lower elevation though, so we don't have all the evergreens and lushness. Lots of Juniper and sagebrush.