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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I want to clarify something:  900k is upper middle class??? If so, what is considered middle class in the dc metro area?[/quote]
That's what I was wondering.  ...  But it seems pretty clear that an income of $300K, or a house of $1M in a good school district, is upper class, not upper middle.[/quote]
This can be (and has been) debated for dozens of pages without reaching any real answer. ...[/quote]
Translation:  I want to make a self-serving assumption that my $300K income is middle class, and nobody can stop me.[/quote]
No, you're wrong.  My point was that there's lots of debate about which income level fits in which class.  Maybe the answer is that posters should not use any particular class designation as shorthand, since it leads to pointless debates.  So with that in mind, please allow me to revise my comment from 4/22@12:45, which seems to have started this exchange:

In my experience,  in every family I know earning above $200,000 (up to at least $900k HHI range), the parents both work extremely hard. Yes, they often have nice things (eg, nice house, nice car, private school) because one or both parents work at high-paying jobs. But those high-paying jobs usually require lots of education (and hard work to get that education) plus lots of hard work at the jobs themselves. If the kids mimic the parents, they certainly won't lack in developing a work ethic.  So I think it's wrong to suggest that families at those income levels lack a work ethic.[/quote]

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