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I think you need to reexamine your life.  You sound mean and angry.  What's wrong?  Upset you don't make $350k/year?[/quote]

Ha, not at all. I'm not actually the OP so I have no skin in the game, I just stepped in because the claim that a family that makes $350,000 a year couldn't afford to fly first class to Europe unless they had an inheritance was so laughable I had to say something[/quote]

I'm not the idiot who keeps insulting the other poster about her 100k income, but seriously, a family with HHI of 350k cannot afford a first class trip to Europe without outside help, saving for years, or running out of money for other things. In this area, 350k will get you a middle class lifestyle, nothing more. Expenses have gone up, and a 6 figure income doesn't get you much. To the people making less than 250k in this or other hcol area, do you have everything a middle class lifestyle provides without struggling? A family of at least 4, 3-4 bedroom house in a nice, safe neighborhood zoned to good schools, couple of moderate vacations a year, able to help with college because expenses have risen astronomically?[/quote]

I am a previous poster -- making 105k.  One parent, one child. So no we don't have four people.  But we do have a nice townhouse in an area with good schools.  And we take vacations.  College is going to have to be local and public.  But that is still within the realm of "middle class".[/quote]

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