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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]

I'm a minority and several of my family members have suites and many friends of my family. They are almost ALWAYS company suites or small business suites meant to entertain clients. One family member has one for his business and is considered blue collar, but has been all over the world and has even been to the Superbowl. Don't judge a book by it's cover.[/quote]

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