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Gender: Female.
Age: 26.
Ethnicity: European/Polynesian.
Role: Film/TV production contractor.
Salary/income/assets: Approximately $60,000 solo income (this varies a lot due to the nature of contracting), or $160k combined household income. Earlier this year my partner and I bought our first home (the house we previously rented for two years).
My living location is: Suburban.
Rent/mortgage per week: I pay half of our $743 mortgage; two people and a cat in a three-bedroom house.
Student loan or other debt payments per week: $498,000 remaining on the mortgage.
