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[quote=Anonymous]How are you defining class?  By money or decency?

Upper middle class by money to me is HHI in the DMV area of $350k+  In Arlington if you have 2 kids, you're living in a house that's min $1M with 3-4 BR in a decent neighborhood.  In Alexandria, you live closer to Del Ray than West End and again, housing there is going to cost appx $1M or so for same house.  With the kids, you take at least 1 if not 2 annual vacations, have enough money to drive 2 cars, one of which is at least a "nice" car like Volvo, Audi, etc. You have your kids in at least 1-2 activities (sports/music/etc).  You have money to grocery shop at Whole Foods, order take out at least 1-2x week and pretty much can do what you want but aren't spending gobs of money doing stuff other than daily living "well."  You don't worry too much about the budget - you don't buy everything in sight and go shopping for a ton of stuff daily - but you also buy what you need and want from Amazon pretty frequently :)

Upper middle class by a traditional "class" system to me is not about where you went to school but by your disposition.  By your manners, your graciousness, your "niceness" and minding your own business, not imparting your opinions on everyone else :)   Class I suppose can mean how you were brought up - knowing why something is right and wrong.  It can also be noted whether you have travelled extensively, so that you are comfortable with various cultures - have you tried different kinds of foods for example.  I would say travel is definitely something you will see in someone who grew up with a certain amount of money or belong to a certain circle.  Have you only been to Disneyland or did you never go anywhere on a plane ever when you were younger?   Now that does not mean you don't have any class if that is you but most people are given opportunities to travel at even a young age (esp years ago before it was fashionable to travel so easily).  Are you able to get along with different kinds of people without freaking out is another sign of class.  You going to be mean to the taxi driver because you don't think a lot of him for driving a taxi?  That to me is a sign of a low class person, regardless of where they graduated from or how much money their family has.  Speaking in complete sentences is another strong sign that someone actually read a book in their life :)

Where I live, I consider to be a mostly "upper class neighborhood" by way of $$ but also in the sense of decency as well.  There are definitely families that are maybe at $300k or so and maybe some who are not as gracious as others but more than not, my kids hang out with friends pretty upper middle class.  [/quote]

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