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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you bought your house before  2003 or went to college before 2000 shut the fuck up. Costs have gone up exponentially and you can't live the middle class lifestyle on less than 250k. [/quote]

Funny.  We're able to live quite nicely on 100k.  [/quote]

Maybe some of us just have higher standards.[/quote]
And that is your biggest problem and will be your downfall[/quote]

You sound unhinged. The fact that you make unfounded assumptions about a complete stranger shows that you might have bigger problems than PP. Come to think of it, I wonder if you are that crazy, old single lady who makes 100k and started a thread a while ago desperately trying to get other people to say she is rich.
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You mean that woman in her 50s? She wasn't trying to get people to say that $100k is rich. As I recall, she was objecting that people - like you, I assume - kept saying that $100k was poor. Big difference.

That's the same thing, stated another way, in this thread. The only way people convince themselves that $300k is middle class is to insist someone earning $100k is poor. If they acknowledged that someone earning $100k (we are talking singe income, not a couple) is upper middle class, rather than struggling, they'd have to face the fact that they themselves are extremely affluent.[/quote]

Family of 4 making $88K in Arlington qualifies for subsidized benefits, which means they are a lot closer to "poor" than to "upper middle class".[/quote]

..... FAMILY OF FOUR is the magical word here. Not Dinks, not one kid, not single. [b]Four kids[/b].[/quote]
Ding, ding, ding! That's the breakdown here. An individual earning $100,000 is upper-middle class. A family of four is going to get subsidizes.

People are mixing up individual incomes and HHI.[/quote]

A family of four does not mean four kids.  It means two grown ups, two kids.[/quote]

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