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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just read all 14 pages. (Isn't that pathetic?) Majority of DCUM has lost touch with reality even in DC. Take a drive down Benning Rd NE or Minnesota Ave (if you know where they are) both in DC. Then come back and tell us that your 200K income is middle class in Washington DC.[/quote]

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[b]Right... because there are poor people in the area, that means your middle class life style isn't middle class. [/b]

What kind of stupid logic is that?

And why would you +1 that garbage? [/quote]

As some PPs have stated, you may be living a middle class life style but your income is not middle class. [/quote]

I don't get it. What is "middle class" if not a lifestyle? If you live in a modest home and send your kids to public school and drive a Hyundai and save for retirement and college and don't expect to ever live off your "wealth," what are you? Housing, child care, and student loans eat up an enormous amount of money. I think it's BS to say that someone living in a 4,000 sq. ft new house on two acres outside of Houston and driving two new European cars on a $150K salary is 'middle class' but someone living in a 1,500 sq ft 60-year-old Cape on 1/5 acre in south Arlington and driving two Hondas on $300K is 'upper class.'[/quote]

why do you care so much how people define you?  [/quote]

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