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Consider the price of bread and milk in NYC or SF, or, you know, housing. Like I said, barely middle class.
by zebraflask 9y ago
Consider the price of bread and milk in NYC or SF, or, you know, housing. Like I said, barely middle class.
- vacri 9y agoThe median household income in the US is ~$52k. Unless your definition of 'middle class' is 'top quintile', $120k is not 'barely middle class'. NYC and SF are also notable outliers, and aren't representative of 'any major metropolitan areas'.
- zebraflask 9y agoI'm detecting some cognitive dissonance on the definition of a major metropolitan area.
- vacri 9y agoHow either of us defines major metro areas doesn't matter anyway, because the median household income in NYC is in line with the rest of the country, in the low 50s[1]. San Francisco's is around 65k[2]. If you're earning $120k, you're not "barely middle class", you're "doing well". [1]https://project.wnyc.org/median-income-nabes/ https://project.wnyc.org/median-income-nabes/ [2]http://citylab.news21.com/data/types/19/ http://citylab.news21.com/data/types/19/