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[quote=Anonymous]The bottom line is a middle class lifestyle (compared to the rest of the country) isn't available here to actual middle class earners unless you invested in real estate at the right time or had family help. If you work in the suburbs like DH and I do, you have it much easier as far as finding a place farther out to live. But if you want a typical middle class home (again, compared to what those of us who grew up in other parts of the country are used to) and you want to be in a reasonable commuting distance of your job with good schools, you need an above middle class salary. The lifestyle of DC's middle income earners is much more modest than other parts of the country. So while 200k may be upper middle class for this area, the lifestyle it affords is not what most Americans would envision that income would provide. [/quote]
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