$500k is middle class in DC now

[Anonymous]

If you are house poor because you are **entitled** to producing 3 children and living in a $2m home, send kids to a local college as commuters

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What’s a USC?

University of Spoiled Children. OP's kids will fit right in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can’t believe that is true, can you? Plenty of us live in places with good schools with homes that cost well under $2m.

And USC is not a school for the middle class.

+1

Person with 170K family combined income who knows she is upper middle class because life just aint that hard.

I lived in a developing country where I regularly saw malnourished people who lived in cardboard and tin shacks. To call my lifestyle anything less than middle class (or on a global scale upper class) is an insult to the suffering they go through.

Compare yourself to the global population here:
https://wid.world/income-comparator/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We literally can’t make ends meet on $1M HHI after paying for 3 kids at Beauvoir and our Kalorama mortgage.

My Hermes spring wardrobe update wiped me out this year how will I afford Burberry in the fall???!! 😔

Are ludicrously capacious bags still cool?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What’s a USC?

University of Spoiled Children. OP's kids will fit right in.

the last bastion of the incompetent rich

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can’t believe that is true, can you? Plenty of us live in places with good schools with homes that cost well under $2m.

And USC is not a school for the middle class.

+1

Person with 170K family combined income who knows she is upper middle class because life just aint that hard.

I lived in a developing country where I regularly saw malnourished people who lived in cardboard and tin shacks. To call my lifestyle anything less than middle class (or on a global scale upper class) is an insult to the suffering they go through.

Compare yourself to the global population here:
https://wid.world/income-comparator/

Irrelevant without taking into account COL.

[Anonymous]

No. Go away rich snowflake.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:USC is a rich kid school PP.

+1 plenty of good schools that aren't that expensive.

And I say this an UMC donut family who won't be paying USC prices for college. It's not worth it. We don't get any financial aid, and the worse thing I can do for my college aged kid is to saddle them with college debt or helping us when we retire because we shelled out almost $800K for a college degree (two kids) they could've gotten with equally great results at the state flagship for a fraction of the cost.

Not worth it if it's going to hurt you financially.

[Anonymous]

All the USC haters make me laugh.
You and your kids couldn't get in rn, 9.9% acceptance rate.
The private jet thing is fr though. We know of several students there whose families roll that way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can’t believe that is true, can you? Plenty of us live in places with good schools with homes that cost well under $2m.

And USC is not a school for the middle class.

They said in DC.

Sadly, if you insist on living in the city, this is true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All the USC haters make me laugh.
You and your kids couldn't get in rn, 9.9% acceptance rate.
The private jet thing is fr though. We know of several students there whose families roll that way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Full of entitlement. You don't need $1m for college for 3 kids. UMD costs $110k for a 4-year degree.

Overpriced

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can’t believe that is true, can you? Plenty of us live in places with good schools with homes that cost well under $2m.

And USC is not a school for the middle class.

+1

Person with 170K family combined income who knows she is upper middle class because life just aint that hard.

I lived in a developing country where I regularly saw malnourished people who lived in cardboard and tin shacks. To call my lifestyle anything less than middle class (or on a global scale upper class) is an insult to the suffering they go through.

Compare yourself to the global population here:
https://wid.world/income-comparator/

Irrelevant without taking into account COL.

This is bullshit. A dollar is a dollar no matter where you go. In fact, many countries run on the dollar. Even when you take into account cost of living, Americans are wealthier and have more luxuries (clean water right from the tap, flush toilets, abundant food which is even given away in food pantries) than most people in the world. To live in denial of this is to be an a-hole. Especially when the information you need to test your theory about cost of living and the reality that most of the world lives in poverty while you and I live in extreme wealth comparatively is right at your fingertips. Prove me wrong. With links and statistics and a comparison of cost of living. I'll wait.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We literally can’t make ends meet on $1M HHI after paying for 3 kids at Beauvoir and our Kalorama mortgage.

My Hermes spring wardrobe update wiped me out this year how will I afford Burberry in the fall???!! 😔

this

[Anonymous]

Americans are rich compared to the rest of the world:
https://www.sportofmoney.com/how-rich-are-americans-on-a-global-scale-very-rich/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/08/23/most-americans-vastly-underestimate-how-rich-they-are-compared-with-the-rest-of-the-world-does-it-matter/
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/07/09/how-americans-compare-with-the-global-middle-class/

If you want to dig deeper on cost of living (FWIW I found many things more expensive when living in a developed country.)