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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think DCUM middle class. I'm kind of surprised by all of the hate given that these numbers aren't extremely high for DCUM. Very comfortable, yes, so middle class. [/quote]

Posts about wealth and numbers screw high. Posters with high numbers post over and over and over again in those posts. And once they trickle into a post, people with lower incomes/numbers stop posting.

Read the totality of all posts on this site. It makes it very clear those numbers posts are not representative of the site. And there are a lot of really stupid posts/responses on this page, indicating the wealth posted on this site isn’t an indicator of the average wealth of all posters. [/quote]

Does that mean you think these numbers are high? I think I've been reading DCUM for too long.[/quote]

I think OP is UMC.

I think you need to look carefully at how posts asking for wealth indicators go - they start with some normal posts but quickly end up with a series of posts with very high incomes/investments. I think, as others indicated in other threads, those posts attract a certain type of response. People with good answers tend to be proud of those figures (no shame in that) and like to respond to those posts. Once others see those responses, they bow out of posting.

But look at the other posts on this site. There are so many about debt, struggling to make ends meet, pay off daycare, buy a home or save for college. And then there are posts looking for personal finance/investment advice that are filled with ignorant or stupid responses or downright financially dangerous advice.

I think people respond to posts that they are personally attracted to and I think posts about income/investment figures attract posters who are ahead of the game. So I would not take those posts as a representative sample of DCUM as a whole, though I do think the site skews wealthier than the DMV (partially because it naturally attracts white collar workers who have more time to post).

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