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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's the list of why this thread exists:

1) If YOU, random DCUM reader, find it hard to buy a house in DC these days on 100k (check Zillow and see for yourself), then that means OP, who only makes 100k, is poor.

2) OP can't stand the thought of being lumped in with "poor" people.

Hence the endless posting about how she can't *believe* how people here consider 100k poor.  This is a repeat poster who constantly harps on this one issue.[/quote]

100k isn't poor and yes we bought a townhouse here (NP with a HHI of around 105K).  I don't think we are poor.  Middle class certainly.  [/quote]
Thank you. I'm the OP whom the troll keeps teasing about being poor - and can almost qualify for welfare - since I only earn $100,000. When I've pointed out that a salary like that is above average for a college-level professional (yes, here in DC), she goes off, calling me an elderly moron. (I'm in my 50s.)

I think the problem is that she can't manage on $200,000 (maybe she's even the same repeat poster complaining she can only afford a shitshack), so the only way she can reconcile that is to convince herself that people making $105,000 HHI income such as yourself (or $100k individual, such as myself) are low class and poor. How else could people like us live nicely if she is "struggling" on $200,000?

And yet, she misses the point. Plenty of professionals earn $60,000 or $70,000 - and the average HHI income nationally is $54,000. How do you think average people feel when they hear how $350k isn't really enough to live the way they want, or $200,000 is a hardship? We are alienating middle-class voters with this snobby attitude, and that is the point of the thread.

Finally, for my little nemesis troll, I am not poor and never have been. Upper-middle class from childhood....dragged to Kennedy Center operas and swimming at the country club. I've continued with an upper-middle class income throughout adulthood, and have lived very comfortably. (And this will be the last time I address you directly. You really do need to grow up.)[/quote]

Which means no need for you to save aggressively for your retirement, as I'm sure you'll be inheriting real estate + a nice chunk of change in the future. [/quote]
That's not true. I have no idea if my parents will bleed through their own retirement savings in a nursing home, so I've been saving diligently for my own retirement for my entire life. (As far as real estate, not much there....just their house, which also could "go" if end-of-life care is expensive.) So, on my "poor" salary of $100,000, I've managed to max out my 401K every year, and now have enough to retire comfortably (in a few years). [/quote]

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