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[quote=Anonymous]If you base class on money, then there are no clear indicators because in the US, there is both old & new money and US & foreign money and so on.  It's different in, say, Europe, where money is more homogeneous.  DH & I both grew up struggling MC, but now are in the top 0.1% of income so if that's your metric, we are UC.  People who make significantly less money than we do live in much bigger houses with a 2nd home in the "right" area, drive flash cars, vacation in the "right" islands, send their kids to the "right" private schools, have at least two nannies for their 2+ kids, and so on.  Neither of us has really grand tastes so based on how we live, people who don't know us well would assume we're UMC making maybe 2-300K per year.  There are only a few ways in which we spend above the UMC level, such as always flying business/first and having a FT nanny (but only one!) that we don't need, but we never mention and try to downplay things like this if they come up.  Being UC for us means being able to afford whatever we want (which so far has been relatively modest) and not worrying about our futures financially.  [/quote]

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