Opportunity Costs: The Class Slide After Divorce
Death, Sex & Money
Slate Audio
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🗓️ 24 January 2018
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I always thought I was the smart one and hindsight is 2020 but from where I sit now and how I have |
| 0:08.8 | to economize I just kind of shake my head at the amount of money I wasted. |
| 0:14.0 | This is opportunity costs from death, sex and money. |
| 0:20.0 | My family didn't have a lot a series all about class which we think about a lot kind of reminded me hey we're not one of you and need to talk about more |
| 0:30.6 | They refused to feel any sort of shame. |
| 0:34.0 | I'm Anna Sale. |
| 0:37.0 | Six years ago, Jamie Seton moved back to the U.S. |
| 0:40.3 | After spending several years living in Asia with her husband and two kids. |
| 0:44.8 | They decided to settle in New Hampshire where Jamie grew up and they bought a place near Dartmouth |
| 0:49.0 | College. |
| 0:50.0 | Out in the country, 5,000 square foot house on like three acres. |
| 0:54.0 | 5,000. |
| 0:54.8 | That's a big house. |
| 0:55.8 | I had three living rooms. |
| 0:57.9 | Before their family moved back to the US, |
| 1:00.0 | Jamie had worked on and off as a freelance writer |
| 1:02.4 | and Newsweek correspondent, while her and off as a freelance writer and Newsweek correspondent, |
| 1:04.1 | while her husband worked as an executive for Citibank. |
| 1:07.2 | We lived very, very well, as many ex-patts do. |
| 1:10.4 | We lived in Thailand in a huge house with a pool and staff and a driver. |
| 1:17.0 | We always traveled business class. |
| 1:20.0 | We always stayed in five-star hotels. |
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