Household income is $350k and live in Arlington. Are we middle or upper middle class?

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Anonymous wrote:It depends. If most of your income is going towards an average house and childcare expenses I'd say you're very middle class.

If you have a paid off nice home and most of your income is from one salary and is almost all disposable I'd say you're upper class in regards to income.

Wow--just wow. If that's what they're spending $$ on it doesn't make you less upper class. Wtf is wrong with people here. The median income in the US is 55k,THAT is middle class!

You're wrong. If they are spending most of their income on childcare and a mortgage for a normal house hey can't afford any of the luxuries that one associatesnwith being wealthy, such as luxury cars, private school, expensive vacations, etc.

If I didn't tell you the income but described a family that spent most of their income on an average house and childcare would you call them wealthy?

They are more than welcome to move out here to Fairfax with the rest of us schmucks and spend a bunch of time and energy commuting to their jobs like we do. Then they'll have plenty of money for fun luxuries. They've traded money for time. The rest of us don't have that option.

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"They have no bread? Then let them eat cake!"

When people who make $350k think they're middle class, the revolution is coming. Watch your head, Marie.

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We live in No Arlington and make $150K and are doing fine, travel internationally, etc. You make more than twice as much. Not MC.

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We live in Arlington and make $550k.

There are rich and richer in our neighborhood. We are average income in our neighborhood. Some make much less, but bought early when houses were half what they are worth now or had family help with house purchase.

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We make $750k and live in N. Arlington (22207). It's solid middle class. Lots make more, lots make less.

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Anonymous wrote:We make $750k and live in N. Arlington (22207). It's solid middle class. Lots make more, lots make less.

Geez, I can't wait to move out of this out of touch, overpriced, overrated, congested little berg where $750k is considered "solid middle class."

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Anonymous wrote:We make $750k and live in N. Arlington (22207). It's solid middle class. Lots make more, lots make less.

No, it's not. Middle class can't afford to live in 22207. That you choose to spend your UMC/UC income on incredibly expensive housing (and we do the same, another 22207 here, so I'm not criticizing you for that) does make you MC.

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Anonymous wrote:We make $750k and live in N. Arlington (22207). It's solid middle class. Lots make more, lots make less.

No, it's not. Middle class can't afford to live in 22207. That you choose to spend your UMC/UC income on incredibly expensive housing (and we do the same, another 22207 here, so I'm not criticizing you for that) does not make you MC.

Fixed that typo.

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Anonymous wrote:We live in Arlington and make $550k.

There are rich and richer in our neighborhood. We are average income in our neighborhood. Some make much less, but bought early when houses were half what they are worth now or had family help with house purchase.

What do people do for a living? Double lawyers? Lobbyists?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It depends. If most of your income is going towards an average house and childcare expenses I'd say you're very middle class.

If you have a paid off nice home and most of your income is from one salary and is almost all disposable I'd say you're upper class in regards to income.

Wow--just wow. If that's what they're spending $$ on it doesn't make you less upper class. Wtf is wrong with people here. The median income in the US is 55k,THAT is middle class!

You're wrong. If they are spending most of their income on childcare and a mortgage for a normal house hey can't afford any of the luxuries that one associatesnwith being wealthy, such as luxury cars, private school, expensive vacations, etc.

If I didn't tell you the income but described a family that spent most of their income on an average house and childcare would you call them wealthy?

They are more than welcome to move out here to Fairfax with the rest of us schmucks and spend a bunch of time and energy commuting to their jobs like we do. Then they'll have plenty of money for fun luxuries. They've traded money for time. The rest of us don't have that option.

Fairfax. Yuck.

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Anonymous wrote:We live in Arlington and make $550k.

There are rich and richer in our neighborhood. We are average income in our neighborhood. Some make much less, but bought early when houses were half what they are worth now or had family help with house purchase.

Continue to be mystified by the DCUM belief that if you have any neighbors that are richer than you, you are by definition middle class. If you live in an incredibly expensive neighborhood with a lot of rich people, it tends to prove the frigging opposite.

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Anonymous wrote:We make $750k and live in N. Arlington (22207). It's solid middle class. Lots make more, lots make less.

LOL. You're a perversion of greed, that's what you are.

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Anonymous wrote:Please, you are low-class for asking the question.

Ha! Indeed

That, we can agree on.

If only the thread could end here...

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Anonymous wrote:Nah, you might be 1% nationally, but not locally.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/income-required-to-be-in-the-top-1-in-the-most-expensive-us-cities-2016-4
And once you look at Arlington, my guess is you're in the border or MC/UMC. I'd say HHI has to be $450-500k+ in Arlington to be UMC.

You people all suck at math. Even on that list of the 11 most expensive cities in the country, $350K is well above the 95th percentile. If only 3-4% of a city can be MC, you need a different definition of "middle".

It's amazing such stupid people can earn so much money.

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Anonymous wrote:Nah, you might be 1% nationally, but not locally.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/income-required-to-be-in-the-top-1-in-the-most-expensive-us-cities-2016-4
And once you look at Arlington, my guess is you're in the border or MC/UMC. I'd say HHI has to be $450-500k+ in Arlington to be UMC.

You people all suck at math. Even on that list of the 11 most expensive cities in the country, $350K is well above the 95th percentile. If only 3-4% of a city can be MC, you need a different definition of "middle".

It's amazing such stupid people can earn so much money.

Seriously. Wtf?