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As a middle class person, here are the luxuries I imagine that you have

I imagine that you own your own home, either a rowhouse in the city or a SFH, and a guaranteed place to park the car within a block or so. [/quote]

Home ownership is not a luxury. It's common for the middle class lifestyle to own a home, or even a nice home. Your definition of luxury is skewed and irrational.

[quote=Anonymous]
I imagine that if you have kids under school age, they have childcare arrangements that you chose carefully, and that if your kid are school age, you felt that you had some degree of choice in where you sent them to school, either because you could afford to live in an area where you liked the private schools, or because you can afford the time and gas to drive them to a charter school in another part of the city, or because you send them to private.[/quote]Parents of all economic classes do this for the benefit of their kids. My parents moved us out to the edge of Anne Arundle county so that we could go to a better school. Buying into the best school district you can is not somehow the exclusive luxury of the rich, it's a very middle class thing to do. Sure, I can buy into Langley, someone making $100k/year may not. But FCPS in general is very good and it is arguable whether you get a better education out of Langley.

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I imagine that you drive a car that, most of the time, you can rely on because it runs well, and that if it unexpectedly broke down tomorrow, you'd be able to replace it with something else reliable.[/quote]Wait, what? That's a luxury? The average new car in the US is bought for $31,252. You can certainly buy something reliable and runs well with that amount.

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I imagine that if your child, like mine, developed a life threatening medical condition, you wouldn't need to pick up extra hours at work, like I did, to pay for the doctors.  In fact you might even take time off to be there to support your child.[/quote] Insurance is a luxury? Again, the average middle class family have health insurance.

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I imagine that you have central air conditioning, and your own washer/dryer, and that if one of these things breaks you call someone to fix it, rather than doing without.[/quote]Again, all very middle class things. What the heck.

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I could go on. [/quote]What, are you going to next claim that I am rich because I can afford a $20 hair cut?

[quote=Anonymous]
Am I really wrong in what I imagine that you have that I don't?  Am I really the one who doesn't understand how you live, rather than vice versa?  [/quote] The things you listed above are all middle class things. They are not exclusively for the upper class or rich/wealthy families. [/quote]

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