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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This again?

I think the reason people say they are middle class when they make $200k is that in DC that affords a decidedly unpretentious lifestyle: public school, a decent but likely unremarkable home, limited vacations, some college savings but certainly not paid off, etc. Inevitably someone posts that those things aren't middle class and someone's sense of normalcy is warped.

The real question should be why those things aren't middle class: after all is it so absurd to want decent education, good health benefits and a reasonably secure retirement? These aren't grandiose wants After all. In Europe the middle class has all that - why can't we have it here?

And that is what's fucked imho. [/quote]

Yup. That's what the middle class should be able to afford, but around here it takes a higher than average income to have all that. As someone with an actual middle class income in Arlington, I can't afford a house (not even a South Arlington shit shack!) or significant savings.

Also agree that middle class values =/= middle class income. I am fine with someone making $200k saying they have middle class values; what makes me roll my eyes is the whining about how they can't afford what they consider a middle class lifestyle. [/quote]

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