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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mc are not living in those houses.  UMC to UC. [/quote]

Are you talking about OP’s townhouse example? Are you not from the DC area? I 100% believe it’s a MC neighborhood.

I live in 22205 and houses are $1-1.4. On paper or based on home equity, people may seem well-off, but if anyone from another region was blindfolded and dropped into our neighborhood they would call it middle class. The houses are 1940s colonials with modest additions, the lots are close together and yards are small, 95% of kids go to public school, most driveways have a minivan or a Prius, our “private” pool is a bit run down and shabby, our parks look like they have not been updated in 20 years. The lifestyle is very MC. Rec sports and county camps are the norm. Typical families are 2 feds or a lawyer and a sahm. There are a surprising number of houses in our neighborhood that are rented. [/quote]

Wrong. Your shabby pool and public schools don't make you Joe Everyman. You have resources and security. True middle class people don't.[/quote]

I live in 22205. What are the outdated parks? There's the brand new expanded playground by Westover, the rose garden, and then all the parks stretching up and down the bike path. It's a great place to live. Maybe we have different definitions of "modest additions"  but to me, this seems like a well off neighborhood for financially comfortable people. Sure, there's a mix of incomes (I can afford long term rental but not purchase here) but it seems either you're downplaying the neighborhood to sound "middle class" or you're from such a well of background that go "slumming at the Marriott."[/quote]

You totally misunderstood the prior post.  You guys were making the same point!  [/quote]

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