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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP is either being sarcastic, humble-bragging, or trolling.

The average family earns $60k. At that level, they probably rent a one-bedroom apartment (if a couple) or a two-bedroom (if they have one or two kids). They shop at cheap grocery stores, eat out at Applebee’s or Olive Garden once in a while, and vacation is a 10-hour drive to visit a grandma in Wisconsin in their old car.

Move up to the $100k range for a family of four, and now you can think about buying a modest townhouse with three bedrooms in an outlying suburb. A vacation now can be a trip to the beach, and meals out can be nicer mid-range spots like Clydes.

Move up to $150k,  and the family can look to buying an older and smallish SFH in the outer suburbs. Vacation is a flight to Disneyworld, and dinner out is at L&N Seafood.

Now we’re at $200k. That’s means a nice 4-bedroom, 3-bath house, and a more elaborate vacation such as a ski trip to Vail or a cruise through New England and Canada. upper-middle class.

At $300k, you will qualify for a house near $1 million dollars. You are affluent. Stop complaining.[/quote]

They don't even have kids. They are DINKS with a designer dog. They can easily go out to eat regularly, take nice foreign vacations, AND save extensively for retirement and the prospect of children. This is truly the dumbest one of these "I feel poor" threads I've ever read.[/quote]

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