daylatedollarshort
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Oh boy, I made a big mistake and showed your post to my DW. When we married 52 years ago, she had a HUGE student debt. Inflation adjusted = $73,430 in today's dollars, or about double her annual starting salary at the time. We just knuckled down and paid it off. I was never a bit hesitant to marry her (at 22 years old) based on the fact her parents could not afford to help her at all and she attended school on grants, loans and campus jobs. DW says she's glad I didn't think like you........ we've had a pretty nice life together. But, yeah, I agree you're probably not the only person that thinks that way.
But we were talking in this thread about $400K type debt, not $73K. Plus the person I was dating was talking about buying a practice debt on top of expensive private school dental tuition debt, before even making $1 in income.