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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I still do not understand the almost aggressive way DCUMers making $300K want to be called middle class. Why are you not proud of having achieved more than 95% of other people?

That's like telling people your kid with 4.5 GPA is an average student. It doesn't make you seem humble, it makes you seem hopelessly greedy. "I have soooooo much, but I want MORE."[/quote]

I don't really get it either.  I also don't get why they all sound so dissatisfied with life.[/quote]

It's really self explanatory. Imagine what it would be like to have $200k/$300k income. Okay, got that mental image ready? Nice eh?

Those of us who have made it can tell you with certainty, it's not like that. You don't go from driving an Accord to driving a Ferrari. More like from an Accord to a TLX. That's why you don't get it, because we didn't get it either. Making $200k to $300k isn't what it's cracked up to be. The dream is a lie. When you wake up to reality and the outcome doesn't match expectation, well, that's a definition of dissatisfaction, isn't it?[/quote]

I don't imagine that you suddenly have a Ferrari.  I consider a late model Accord a pretty luxurious thing to own, certainly a step up from the Metrobus I use.  [/quote]

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