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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree.  Just for a point reference so we are all on the same page--what in your book qualifies as middle class?  It seems like peoples definition of middle class runs the gamut especially in DC.  [/quote]

In NW DC, Middle class is : college educated , earning between 75 K and 300K a year ( oro slightly less than 75 K if you are a teacher or gov't employee . [/quote]

I'm a college educated teacher (with a Master's) who makes more than slightly less ($60K).  Do I qualify as middle class?  If so, [b]what in God's name do I have in common with people who make $300K?[/quote]
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I was wondering the same thing. I am married to a teacher who is in the exact same position as you education wise and salary wise. I am a government attorney so our HHI is close to $175K. His coworkers (who don't know what I do for a living) constantly question how he can afford to live where we do (which is not some rich fancy area) or how he can afford to drive the car he does (a 2005 car with 200,000 miles). When he tells me this I seriously wonder how a single teacher or even two married teachers are living a so called middle class lifestyle? [b]Sorry, but $75K a year is NOT middle class. [/b]I do consider my husband and I to be middle class, but given our student loans (over $300K) we are teetering on the lower middle class side. The only thing I have in commone with someone who makes $300K is that my student loan bill is that high. LOL

That being said, as you commented in your most recent post we too are committed to sending our DC to private school even if that means working a second job to make it happen. [/quote]

Why are you so committed to sending your kid to private?  Does your husband teach in a private school? [/quote]

"middle class" is determined by more than your adjusted income on your 1040, PP.

Upper class is largely determined by birth ( old inherited money, nobility of foreign countries ) In this way, Cooper Anderson is " upper class" because he is a Vanderbuilt and well you , just aren't.

Most of what you are referring to as " not middle class" are the upper middle class ( college educated and affluent / 300K a year or more )

For example, if you are a law partner who gets an 800K bonus every year, that is a good income , but you are still upper middle class, not upper class. Rockefeller you are not.

" Middle Class" : you are college educated , have a profession , send your kids to college and earn a reasonable living.

" working class" : no higher education, no profession and a wage earner.

So, what does a college professor who graduated from an Ivy League school ( as did his parents and GP's ) , owns his home and send his kids to private "have in common " with a law partner who earns a few million a year ?

Answer: probably went to same school ( or maybe the Proff went to a better school, the lawyer grew up wanting to vacation and " summer " where the Prof's family did for generations and the lawyer would probably ask the prof if he could borrow a book from his library.

In short , lots in common.

working class and the rest, not so much[/quote]
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Did you pull these definitions out of your ass? [/b]I know. a lot of Upper Middle class people with ZERO education. When someone's company is pulling in 3 million dollars in profit a year I doubt his/her lack of a college degree dilutes their economic class. [/quote]

This has nothing to do with Beauvoir.

Did you intend to prove my point that there is more to [i]class[/i] , than income ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_class_in_the_United_States[url][/quote]

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