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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nothing ordinary about making north of $200K, which puts one in the top 5% of the country.  How is that "middle"?  And please don't say "250K doesn't get you very far in NW DC, Chevy Chase and Bethesda" - living in an expensive area is a choice.  When I lived in NYC, I remember wealthy professionals in Manhattan saying these incomes are "barely getting by" - as if choosing to live in Manhattan isn't itself a luxury.

http://mic.com/articles/64095/what-we-get-wrong-when-we-define-the-middle-class[/quote]

If a person works in Manhattan, where should they live? Iowa? Idiot  :roll: [/quote]

No Jersey City.[/quote]

New Jersey has some of the highest property taxes in the nation, unless of course you would have them drive 1.5 hours to get to work because there's no PATH stations in their county  :roll: [/quote]

Okay smarty pants - but that is where my middle class friend rents an apartment and commutes from.  remember we are talking middle class here![/quote]

Renting an apartment is hardly middle class. Having a mortgage on a freestanding house is middle class. And that is expensive in the NYC Metro Region.[/quote]

Middle class means different things in different areas.  In an area where the majority of people live in apartments, then the middle class live in apartments too.

Are you going to argue that the people who live in the $5Million Penthouses on Park Avenue aren't middle class either, they're poor because their homes aren't "freestanding".  [/quote]

Hyperbole helps no one, you knew what PP was saying[/quote]

Actually I dont.  Home ownership is not the definition of middle class, no matter how much you may wish it to be so.  If this webpage is true, 69% of New York city residents rent.  In what world is 69% of a city like NY lower class?

http://www.nakedapartments.com/guides/nyc/renting-in-new-york-city/high-demand-low-supply[/quote]

I think I get it now.  PP who so desperately wants to be called middle class just has a completely different definition of middle class than the rest of us.  According to this PP - those of us in apartments or townhouses (or smaller single family homes in Silver Spring or PG) are lower class (no matter how much money we make).  And the people with single family homes in Bethesda and Arlington who have huge mortgages and thus limited disposable income are "middle class".  The upper class is left for the truly rich.    LOL.[/quote]

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