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[quote=Anonymous]Because many of them do have middle class values. Most of us grew up associating "middle class" with these things: graduating from college. Getting a white collar job. Buying a home. Taking some sort of family vacation once or twice a year. If your HHI is $200-$300K and you own a $1M home in North Arlington (which doesn't mean it's an impressive house), drive a "normal" car, send your kids to public school, save for college, don't have household servants except for the weekly maid service and take the kids to "normal" vacations for a week or two in the summer, that sounds pretty middle class to me. It's just upper middle class. I'm a single mom who makes low six figures and knows I'm probably upper middle class based on upbringing, education and where I live. But with just one income, I'm closer to the median HHI for my county than the dual-income families I know.[/quote]
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