I think it does. I’m not from DC and came to this forum to discuss my UMC problems because I didn’t have any UMC friends.
I don’t know anyone in real life who has hired a nanny or a housekeeper, sends their kids to multiple expensive camps for summer childcare, or just hires out xyz inconvenient thing. I had no idea how to do it and got a lot of good advice. I’ve made work friends and things over the years, but I stay on here because I can’t leave. |
Others don't feel inferior unless they want to. Rich people are allowed to talk. I am not rich but I like hearing insights from financially successful people as they discuss their lives. I am not a hater and a pocket watcher and I don't throw the word "boomer" around though. |
Same. |
People - a nice single family home in DC, or close-in MD/VA easily costs $2m+. Probably more.
That means virtually every family living in a nice SFM home in DC, Bethesda, Arlington, or McLean has a HHI of at LEAST $600k+. Probably a third have anHHI of $1million+. That's tens of thousands of families in the area making large incomes. |
What does this mean? |
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It means unfortunately lower common classes now have access to the internet and are infiltrating websites and forums where in the past they would not have been able to access. |
This is a great example of why the forums appear wealthier than they are (and why advice here needs a lot of salt). Those $2M houses did not cost $2M 10 years ago, and if they are new builds the owner was usually on the property ladder before. In my neighborhood it's very common to have a now-$1.5M house on a $300k HHI because you bought a while back and/or traded up. That's still a high HHI nationally! But not unusual for a two income family here. |
Thus. Look at all the threads about how to dress/act like old money. |