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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Someone on another thread suggested that it takes $10 million a year to be upper class, implying that someone earning $5 million a year is merely upper-middle. This speaks to the skewed perspective of DCUM posters, and I thought it would interesting to inject a dose of reality. The following is how I would describe a few tyoical distinctions of an upper-middle lifestyle (that approximately 15% of the population enjoy) versus the middle-class lifestyle (that about 50% of the population lives).

Upper-middle class:

1) Housing: A 2500+ SF single-family house in the suburbs, or an upscale townhouse or condo (or luxury apartment) in an affluent suburbs or the city proper (think Berhesda, McLean, DC)
2) Vacations: a 2-week luxury cruise to the Baltics, a winter ski trip, or a few trips to the (owned) beach condo or house
3) Entertainment: dinner at the Capital Grille, Kennedy Center opera or ballet,[b] club-level seats at the Nationals [/b]
4) Education: Public school in a better-rated district or private

Middle-class:

1) Housing: An older house of less than 2500 sf in the suburbs, a townhouse, or an apartment in the suburbs (think Gaithersburg, Silver Spring, Rockville)
2) Vacations: a 1-week cruise to the Caribbean, a 4-day trip trip to Disneyworld, or a week in a beach rental
3) Entertsinment: Dinner at Outback, the movies, regular,stadium seating at the ballpark
4) Education: Public school
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Baseball is very middle class.  [/quote]
Generally, yes. But those expensive club seats aren't being scooped up by middle-class families - and they sell well. It's the upper.middle who don't blink at spending $400 or $500 to take the family to the game.[/quote]

Sigh.

UMC don’t pay for those seats. They are company seats, and mom or dad take the kids when they can’t come up with a business purpose for them.[/quote]
Depends on what you're thinking of. I said "club-level." NOT box seats. Believe me, families pay for the club seats so they have quick access to air conditioning, eating in comfort (see: AC), and just generally better viewing.[/quote]

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