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Rofl, $100k/yr is rich.

• samatao 9y ago
  Very often not enough to raise a family where those $100k/yr salaries are located.
• jacobolus 9y ago
  Median household income in her city for her age group is about $80k/year. $100k/year puts her in the top 35% or so of all households, but probably not “rich” by local standards under a typical definition of “rich”. When someone says “that guy is rich”, “oh what a sheltered rich guy who can’t understand the struggles of the rest of us”, etc., I’m imagining someone who eats expensive restaurant meals 5 times a week, vacations all over the world, puts their kids in exclusive private schools, maybe owns a sailboat or a small plane, buys luxury cars, etc... Someone who can just afford to buy a house and put 3 kids through college and save for a modest retirement seems pretty solidly “middle class” by most standards. You might have a different definition. Obviously if you compare to rural peasants or developing country factory workers, $100k is a very high salary, but compared to working professionals in urban California with a similar amount of training and experience, state university professors are at the low end of salaries.
  • abusoufiyan 9y ago
    >Someone who can just afford to buy a house and put 3 kids through college and save for a modest retirement seems pretty solidly “middle class” by most standards. You might have a different definition. idk what standards these are. Someone who can buy a house, put 3 kids through college and retire is rich. Do you live in America?? You are basically describing every suburban, white picket-fence American dream lifestyle, a lifestyle unobtainable for most people because most people aren't rich.
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