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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'll be honest. My family has about a $350k HHI and I don't have middle class values.  I like outsourcing and having the freedom to travel internationally.  I send my kids to private schools.

Honestly, I think the people in my tax bracket who claim "middle class values" are mostly lying to themselves.  I have colleagues with 1/3 my HHI (which is actually middle class-like) and I know they live very differently than us.

Whenever you see there is someone richer than you you can always imagine you are middle class.  It's silly.  Give it up.

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Most people with a $350k HHI doesn't live like you. We didn't start getting maid service until our income went above $500k. Up until last year I mowed my own lawn. The extent of our international travel is a 5-day Alaska trip in the last 4 years that also happened to pass through Canada. We shop at outlet malls, not Tysons. Our kids go to public school - but we did buy into the nice neighborhood that feeds the desirable school district.

I'll put it this way. Every single day, whenever there are people around me, I look up and see that these are other middle class people. They are not giving me a second look because I am doing the same thing they are doing. [/quote]

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