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[quote=Anonymous]Here’s why many people don’t consider it rich or call it middle class.

Many Americans grew up in an average home in a non coastal city.  They had married parents with one or maybe two parents working normal paying jobs. They lived in a nice part of town but not the nicest.  They didn’t go on fancy vacations, but they went on vacations.  They took their kids to Disney. Annual beach vacation. A decent car or two in the driveway. College tuition was reasonable.  This was all very doable on a normal salary and in many US cities, it still is!

But you can’t replicate that lifestyle in a city like DC, New York, sf etc.  you can’t be an average worker bee and live in a nice part of dc, drive a newish car, pay for childcare, send your kids to college, take annual vacations and the like and have much, if anything, leftover at the end of the month.

The home I am writing this from is well over a million and was not even a middle class neighborhood.  It was a working class neighborhood.  Arlington and what are now expensive parts of the DC area didn’t even used to be remotely expensive.

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