<p>depends on where you live…look at real estate value to determine what’s considered rich.
in my town, a little town house is worth $120,000…a person making up to that is therefore considered middle-class.</p>
<p>Hey guys -it’s not just the money.What about education ? To me ,upper class has trust funds ,and doesn’t need to work .Children go to private schools ,have nannies and moms who don’t work . There are lots of factors to consider here .</p>
<p>I always considered myself upper-middle (my family makes ~250k a year). However, I suppose by some standards I am upper-class.</p>
<p>It isn’t all about cost of living and income. You have to factor in other things. You say I can’t be poor if my parents make 150 thousand dollars in Texas but you have to factor in that my parents have four kids and that they have tons and tons of money they owe in student loans that they’ll probably never be able to pay off. It’s really not very much money at all which is why I said that this income is middle class.</p>
<p>Depends on CoL, family size, assets, liabilities, etc.</p>
<p>My dad pulls in about 100k a year over here but, compared to all my friend’s, we’re not that rich. Our area is pretty affluent and the amount of money we used to buy our house here (350K) could have got us a house 3 times as big in a different area. The cost of living over here is high. I feel kinda *<strong><em>ed sometimes too when i see all these rich snooty kids wasting their time on drugs and *</em></strong> when they have the funds to truly be great. Wasted opportunity i suppose. </p>
<p>Most people around me have 800K + houses and my good friend lives in a 3 million dollar mansion. </p>
<p>Search up Marietta on Realtor.com and you’ll see what i mean.</p>
<p>Yeah, I think it does differ where you live. I live in Houston, in an upper class suburb, but I don’t see myself as “rich”.
And yes, Daxlo5, I completely see where you’re going with the drugs thing. It’s really sad, because almost half of my school does pot or some kind of drug, when they could be spending that time and money on much better things.</p>
<p>^^ As in Marietta, GA?</p>
<p>That place is very affluent. Rich as ****.</p>
<p>^ Yea pretty much.</p>
<p>^^ I know. It’s so sad. It’s a reverse cycle here, the rich kids are gonna end up being poor deadbeats and the regular kids who work hard are gonna be the rich ones.</p>
<p>Oh yeahh. Same here. Basically, the rich kids will be living with their parents when they’re old and the kids who worked hard won’t be. :)</p>
<p>where I live, the median house value is almost 1 million…</p>
<p>We make like around 150k.</p>
<p>I’ve always found it funny that most people who make a reasonable amount of money (maybe $100k-$400k) consider themselves upper-middle class, and see the upper class boundary as being just above their own income. A lot of the posts here seem to confirm this… ;)</p>
<p>Yeahh, I guess. But most people don’t really want to be like Oh, I’m upper class. Because that makes them seem…coneceited? I don’t know. Hahaha
My parents like to save all their money and so I think if they didn’t do that I would see myself as more of upper-middle than middle.</p>
<p>Yeah, I’m kinda worried about my future because while I know that I’m going to end up probably pulling in 120k a year, I can’t help but think that alone I won’t be able to afford the top colleges for my kids, colleges that I can afford due to insane financial aid. And I’m skeptical of how motivated my expected middle class kids would be.</p>
<p>Blahhhh.</p>
<p>That’s what my parents are worried about! Because 1 year is fine, but all 4 years PLUS pharmacy school? But we don’t qualify for financial aid, which really sucks.</p>
<p>Exactly. I kind of feel bad for the almost-upper class-but-not-quite people who are expected to pay full. I’m pretty sure I’m going to start up a college savings fund as soon as I get a “real job.”
What you said is a lot of money to pay, the four years and pharmacy school. I guess at least you know you’ll make a good deal of money once you’re a pharmacist. It’s just a lot of time, and a lot of stress on both the parents and the kid. Do you think you’ll be getting a job while in college?</p>
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I honesty find it much more conceited when someone whose family makes a lot of money says something like “I’ve always considered myself to be upper-middle class.”</p>
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If you’re the only income earner in your house then you’ll still get decent aid from the top schools. ;)</p>
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Very much agreed. It almost feels demeaning? I’m not quite sure how to explain it.</p>
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That’s what I was planning on. Thanks, that calms some of the weird anxiety for what should be happening three decades from now hahaha.</p>
<p>nvmd, i think mines more around 100k-120k</p>
<p>in a million dollar house neighborhood</p>
<p>I just googled Marietta, Georgia and it doesn’t seem that rich. The median family income is like $47,000 and 15 percent of people are below the poverty line</p>