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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The idea of socioeconomic class around here creates confusion as realistically the average HHI is significantly higher than elsewhere in the nation or even abroad. We are among the richest people in the world, here in the DC area. And yet when you look at your life, living in a small townhouse in a regular suburb driving a practical car like Subaru and sending your kids to public school, you feel like you’re just another regular American. The money doesn’t go far. A young couple bringing in 250k feel less than when really that’s top income globally.

At what point do you feel, well, not middle class? [/quote]

400k[/quote]

My husband and I make $435 and I feel very middle class (we are in our mid 30s). I’d say closer to $600K. [/quote]

You are an idiot.

When I got out of grad school and DH and I were making a combined $140k in today's dollars is when my life began to feel materially different from my middle class childhood. A middle class childhood which, BTW, included very few stays in "middle of the road" hotels, which my parents couldn't afford. I grew up in New England and we spent a week on Cape CID every summer....in a tent.

Our HHI is now $260k and our life is nowhere near middle class, despite the fact that our house is no bigger than the one I grew up in. [/quote]

PP here,  meant to add: that was $140k and no kids. [/quote]

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