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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Arlignton is a bad example. There are a lot of poor people who bring the average down. You won’t find too many families who are not recent immigrants who are “middle class”. [/quote]

You understand how statistics like average and median work, right?
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Arlington is full of apartments with subsidized rents, college grads bunking up on $70k salary paying half their income to the rent, and retirees living off savings (ie no income) in paid off houses bought for $200k.  If you look at the “middle classes” income for families living in a SFH, it’s likely $400k.[/quote]

So…if you take out the poor people the average goes up? Yes. But poor and middle class people exist. You can’t leave them out because they aren’t “people I benchmark myself against.” Your way of thinking is exactly why someone with a $400k HHI thinks they are middle class.[/quote]

FFS, I’m not including people who have their expenses covered by the state.  There is a huge donut it Arlington, it’s very Tale of Two Cities. [/quote]

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