I taught in Austin ISD for 6 years and made around $47K and with my wife working at time Warner, it was tough. We did manage to buy a condo in east Austin and made a good profit, moved to DFW so she could go to school to be an RN but had to move back in w my parents to accomplish that. We are at least in a spot now where we can sell here and take the pay cut to live where we want to be. I guess looking back we were racking up credit card debt to make it work and at $84K I'm now making progress with savings.

$60K to teach is still pretty good for starting pay with a BA and I wouldn't consider NRH or Hurst wealthy suburbs compared to Colleyville or grapevine