Some wealthy parents buy their adult children homes in affluent neighborhoods. Great idea? Perhaps they should realize that “affluent neighborhoods” are high-consumption neighborhoods. From property taxes to the pressure to decorate, from the perceived need to send their children to expensive private schools to the $40,000 four-wheel-drive luxury Suburban, the children are now on the earn-to-spend treadmill. Thanks, Mom and Dad! As Mr. Allan, the super-PAW, told us:
