<p>This thread cracks me up :P. But I want to contribute :).</p>
<p>I hope to afford to live in a decent community, where kids don’t walk around in torn-up, dirty old clothes, where people have their lawns taken care of, and where trashy, old Buicks don’t creep around with the bass turned up, satisfied with their penniless, uneducated, drug-themed lives. I don’t want to worry that my neighborhood might be in gang territory or feel like my kids are unsafe if they venture around alone.</p>
<p>I want a house that doesn’t feel cramped, a modern car, a sportbike, a nice PC, a modest TV, newest game systems. I want to “spoil” my kids and afford vacations, sometimes to other countries.</p>
<p>“<em>sigh</em> so many materialistic people these days. 100K is very rich to me. i hate how people say ‘i don’t consider myself rich’ when to most of the population they are. the most people ever say is they’re middle upper class. Some people have such high standards.”</p>
<p>In one of my classes this semester my professor had us write down how much money our families make and what percentile we think we’re in in the nation, and people who made 300 and 500k were guessing they were middle class. O.O</p>
<p>^ Those people are pretty bizarre, unless they live in Moscow or something where the house prices are completely ridiculous. I guess I would consider <30 poor, 30-60 middle class, 60-80 high-middle-class, >80 rich. I’m not saying that my ideas have any validity and I have no idea what I’m basing them off of, but that’s just what’s in my head :)</p>
<p>I always thought that rich was those making 500k+ a year, while consisting of about 3 other classes below.
( but actually, someone can be making 500k a year but spending way more and having a less yearly saving than one making 250k a year, and in all both statisically did just about the same things only for different prices… I’m sure it happens all the time.)
Do I think I will ever be rich? Well it would be nice, but in all I don’t think it will change my future lifestyle at all dramatically ( maybe, maybe not), just probably would decrease the amount of money I can spend here and there for " that price." So reguardless I think I would still be able to basically get everything I want, do what I want, always have a good time, enjoying myself, being happy etc…</p>
<p>Ruby I think part of it is that if you’ve spent your whole life around other people who make $100,000/yr then that’s pretty average to you. The kids whose families made $300K a year were rich, and the kids whose families made $60K a year were “poor.” Even if they knew that nationally, they were pretty damn well off, in their heads they are the average.</p>
<p>I am already very wealthy, because of endeavors in the stock market… I will also inherit a large sum of money ($1million plus)… I am also studying for an economic major and a finance concentration. I plan on buying my father’s business at some point (very large well established business) or starting a business. </p>
<p>I enjoy the lifestyle that I live but I am not a spender, I have saved or invested all of the money that I have made. Doing this was easier because my parents have paid for all of college, private high school, car, and such. </p>
<p>In conclusion I believe that I will be very wealthy one day even if I do not inherit that money because I already have a sum of money and because I am a saver, not a spender. I also have a very good understanding of the stock market at age 20 which I believe will assist me in my life considering that I have already made quite a bit off of it.</p>
<p>I think I will be. My parents can at least afford to send me to grad school so that should help with my income a bit. My aim is to get a salary of $400,000 a year.</p>
<p>Since we kinda drifted to the topic of class, here is an extremely helpful and interactive link to help show and explain where one falls into or would fall into. </p>
<p>Dear CC, I feel jusified in presenting this link as I feel it will only stimulate the discussion.</p>
<p>Oh, yeah, I’m gonna go to Harvard, graduate top of the class doing premed, then got to Johns Hopkins Medidcal School, graduate at the top again, work as a personal medical doctor for the President of the United States, and become super super rich.</p>
<p>I hope I can be rich when I grow up, I’d be satisfied and very happy when I make six figures. All I hope for is a nice, big house with hopefully my wife’s dream car and my own Lexus LS. My loans to be fully paid off which may sum up to over $100k so it may take a while. Take care of my future children really well but not spoil them fully and also let my parents and my father/mother-in-laws live a comfortable life also.</p>