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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]200k and can't afford a house I'd actually want to live in. I consider us solidly middle class.[/quote]

And I expect you are typical of people who think they're middle class when they are clearly not. It's not enough to own a home, you have to own the perfect home, with at least one more bedroom than you need, a kitchen updated in the last 5 years to your exacting tastes, the right location, the right schools, etc etc etc.

Middle class means you compromise and you do without. Kids share a bedroom. The kitchen is 15 years old or more. The floors are carpeted, and the bathrooms look like your grandmas. And you live with that because you have other financial priorities - and you simply can't afford to renovate.

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Right. If you ever watch the TV show The Middle, that family is living the way most of the middle class in the US lives.  The house, the furniture, the clothes they wear: they are all much closer to what most of the US would recognize as middle class. 
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