Anonymous wrote:Median family income in Washington metro is $106,551.

Median in Beverly hills is 300k - that doesn't mean 300k is middle class.

106k is upper middle class

Median family income in Washington metro is $106,551.

All these posts on what is middle class - UMC starts around 90k, ends at 300. Upper class starts there.

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Anonymous wrote:Now UMC folks making 90k get hit again - 529 plan changes,

When will Obama discrimination against the UMC and wealthy stop? Communist through and through.


What else can the UMC do to help pay for college?

Might I suggest opening a fifth grade civics textbook and reading the definition if "socialism"?

Communism and socialism are close cousins.

Anonymous wrote:Now UMC folks making 90k get hit again - 529 plan changes,

When will Obama discrimination against the UMC and wealthy stop? Communist through and through.


What else can the UMC do to help pay for college?

Might I suggest opening a fifth grade civics textbook and reading the definition if "socialism"?

Now UMC folks making 90k get hit again - 529 plan changes,

When will Obama discrimination against the UMC and wealthy stop? Communist through and through.


What else can the UMC do to help pay for college?

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where do you live? When did you buy?[/quote]


Bought in 2009. DH bought a townhome in 2002, rode the appreciation, and put money into our current place.[/quote]


That is very lucky timing. Where do you live?[/quote]

Lucky how? Living wisely and taking advantage of market conditions is hardly luck.[/quote]

Are you serious? You were lucky enough to marry someone who purchased pre bubble. You didn't "time the market". I'm slightly older than you and was one year into my job in 2002. It takes time to save up a down payment. By the time we did, we were screwed market-wise. You're acting as if you waited it out to purchase at the right time. You were lucky. [/quote]

PP is right. You totally got lucky on your real estate timing.

It was not all luck.

You seem angry.[/quote]

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Anonymous wrote:This thread has been derailed by real estate trolls. Reality is that many on dcum want to deny that they are upper class privileged folks with a terrible case of woe is me syndrome.

Being top 1% in history, which anyone with 100k or more is, makes you upper middle class and then some. So many petulant school children on these threads - wake up and smell reality!!

People like you vote, what scares me is not your opinion, but your ignorance.

Why is there so much hatred against those with different attitudes? The PP is correct - we are top 1% of history. How in the world is that ignorant?

You seem like a miserable person.

Ok am I the only person who doesn't understand what you are referring to by "top 1% of history"? That phrase doesn't make sense to me.

They are saying that if you take every person who has ever lived in history, we can even shorten it to recorded history, then the present population of the US, or more specifically the people in the DC area are in the top 1%.

Not only is this bit of trivia not even slightly interesting, it also doesn't make a 100K income "upper middle class and then some". Yet the PP appears to think this way.

This is like some average person arguing that he is in the top 1% of health quality by comparing life expectancy to everyone in history.

If you have no housing cost, no student debt, no child care cost, no consumer debt, fully funded retirement and college, no dependents - 40 K is not a bad amount.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread has been derailed by real estate trolls. Reality is that many on dcum want to deny that they are upper class privileged folks with a terrible case of woe is me syndrome.

Being top 1% in history, which anyone with 100k or more is, makes you upper middle class and then some. So many petulant school children on these threads - wake up and smell reality!!

People like you vote, what scares me is not your opinion, but your ignorance.

Why is there so much hatred against those with different attitudes? The PP is correct - we are top 1% of history. How in the world is that ignorant?

You seem like a miserable person.

Ok am I the only person who doesn't understand what you are referring to by "top 1% of history"? That phrase doesn't make sense to me.

Anonymous wrote:I make $40K and I am upper middle too!! Because I say so !!

No, you are below median, and thus, lower middle class.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread has been derailed by real estate trolls. Reality is that many on dcum want to deny that they are upper class privileged folks with a terrible case of woe is me syndrome.

Being top 1% in history, which anyone with 100k or more is, makes you upper middle class and then some. So many petulant school children on these threads - wake up and smell reality!!

People like you vote, what scares me is not your opinion, but your ignorance.

Why is there so much hatred against those with different attitudes? The PP is correct - we are top 1% of history. How in the world is that ignorant?

You seem like a miserable person.

I make $40K and I am upper middle too!! Because I say so !!

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Yes, tuition costs are higher now in absolute terms but it's the rate of increase that is most indicative of "who had it worst". Take a look:

http://trends.collegeboard.org/college-pricing/figures-tables/average-rates-growth-published-charges-decade

Sorry. This post is pages old, but this was never addressed. I hope nobody took this seriously, because it is ridiculous. Rate of change is in no way indicative of "who had it worst." I mean, completely abstracting this away from context and just looking at basic calculus, the basic idea is just wrong.

For sure, out parents definitely had it much worse. Not as many choices

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Anonymous wrote:This thread has been derailed by real estate trolls. Reality is that many on dcum want to deny that they are upper class privileged folks with a terrible case of woe is me syndrome.

Being top 1% in history, which anyone with 100k or more is, makes you upper middle class and then some. So many petulant school children on these threads - wake up and smell reality!!

People like you vote, what scares me is not your opinion, but your ignorance.

Median income in the dc area is higher than 100k.