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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I make about $200k, and I definitely feel very rich. We can pay for any college our kids get accepted to out of cash flow - even if it's $70k a year.

We receive catalogues by mail for some crazy cruises with a price of $95k per person for a 3-week cruise. Who is taking a 3-week cruise paying $200k for a couple? Definitely nobody like us, yet that doesn't prevent me from feeling rich. I'm so far from thinking that if I can't afford that cruise, I must be a middle class.[/quote]
Ah! Now we're starting to unravel why some people feel they're middle-class on $400k and others feel rich on $200k.

I'm a PP who feels upper-middle class on my single income of $100k - international travels, symphony, maid, etc., etc. But....big but....when I say "international travel," I mean - as an example - my lovely 10-day Mediterranean cruise on a premium cruise line last year. It was $2700 (shared the cabin with a friend), and I felt quite affluent as I walked around the palace grounds at Monaco, strolled the streets of Barcelona, did some shopping in Naples, and gobbled down ice cream in Marseille. What a life!! Who wouldn't feel rich?

But $95k pp for a three-week cruise? OMG. Crazy! And even the people earning $400k can't afford that. So maybe they look at some high-end luxury experience that only a billionaire could afford, and think....I can't do that, so I'm not rich. But they could afford a luxury cruise that goes for $7000 a week, and to me, that's pretty rich.

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