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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have done half the stuff in you describe in UMC list and half the things you describe in MC list. I'm poor.

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If you've done half the stuff in the upper-middle class list, you're not poor. That's my point. [/quote]

I make $30k a year or less, and have the last 20 years. My family has no significant money.
Kennedy center has many free concerts. Went to see and listen to the most played living classical musician in the world for free. Baltic cruise? I grew up there and go back often. Don't care to be stuck on the boat, but I've been to Helsinki, Stockholm, Tallinn, Copenhagen, St. Petersburg (Leningrad back then), but also Paris 2x and Amsterdam 2x. Ski trip? I've taken it to the Baltics, but my poor Baltic friends take theirs to Austria or Switzerland. Doesn't cost as much as you think. 
Public education all the way that offered 7 languages.
Beach condo or a house? No to that. Too much of a drag, happy to stay in a hotel in PR, Miami 5x, Key West 2x. Love Key West architecture., and Hemingway's house ofcourse.
Nationals? Only had fun once I started drinking. Not going anymore.
I've been to fancy steak houses but not going back any time soon. Used to be Schula's, have been to Morton's and Chris Ruth's.

MC:
Apartment in the city?
Was going to take a short  trip to the Bahamas, but again, don't want to be stuck on a boat. Disney? I lost count, but 3 times I think and several days at the time. Outback? Been there 3 times in 20 years.
Public education all the way.

You left out several things that might point to MC or Upper middle class elsewhere in the world. Traveling a lot- not just beaches and mountains, but different continents, speaking 3-5 languages, knowing how to ride a horse. I've been riding since I was 4.

All this can be done with a lot less money than you think.  Don't have to be MC, but you have to have a plan. Check your skewed perspective. My much poorer European friends have done and seen a lot more than my much richer American friends. Europeans have been to South America, Japan, UAE, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, not to mention everywhere in Europe and Northern Africa.
$30k is a lot of money when you come from making $7k a year. 
It's not how much you make, but how you spend it. [/quote]

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