What is Middle Class?

[BleedBurgundy]

Originally Posted by saden1

So if you're single and make 85K, what are you? You most certainly are not wealthy.

Depends on the cost of living in your area. I guarantee 85k for a single person not living in a major metropolitan area or in a wealthy/trendy neighborhood is doing pretty damn well for themselves.

Around here, (Lancaster, PA Amish Country!) My fiancee and I bring in about $80 k per year, own our home and live pretty comfortably, but were we to live in NYC, we'd be living in a 1 or 2 bedroom apartment somewhere...

Scheisse- I posted this before reading down the thread...

[dmek25]

Originally Posted by BleedBurgundy

Depends on the cost of living in your area. I guarantee 85k for a single person not living in a major metropolitan area or in a wealthy/trendy neighborhood is doing pretty damn well for themselves.

Around here, (Lancaster, PA Amish Country!) My fiancee and I bring in about $80 k per year, own our home and live pretty comfortably, but were we to live in NYC, we'd be living in a 1 or 2 bedroom apartment somewhere...

Scheisse- I posted this before reading down the thread...

i tend to agree, but.. last year( i live right down the street, in Lancaster) me and my wife made about $150,000. 22 years ago, together we made $28,000. it is definitely true, the more your income goes up, the more your lifestyle changes, and becomes more expensive. those who choose to try and keep the same lifestyle, are the ones, monetarily, end up with the most cash