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Yes, you are lower middle class in DC. 300k looks rich to you because it's more than double your income, but it's not rich. Your perspective is skewed. People making 50k here are straight up poor. The posters harping that people making 50k are middle class are delusional. We have plenty of medical assistants in our clinic with hhi 50-60k. Their finances are miserable. Zero retirement, perpetual renters, and they work like dogs for their wages. They splurge now and then, probably so they don't go crazy. Does that sound middle class? [/quote]
Yes. That's what slashing the social safety net and basically having a dog-eat-dog society does to the middle class. But that doesn't mean that income level isn't middle class. If you think their situations are bad (and I agree they are), take a look at those of the truly destitute.

You are insisting that you aren't rich based on your perception of what rich should be. But statistics say otherwise. The problem is that a middle income can no longer support a decent lifestyle...not that people are arguing that 5-10%-ers are rich.

-- $600-700K HHI, so this isn't about me envying your lot[/quote]

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