> I don't understand. Is your entire point in this discussion to somehow justify talking down to other people? > My point was that the OP's use of the phrase "o

> I don't understand. Is your entire point in this discussion to somehow justify talking down to other people? > My point was that the OP's use of the phrase "only $12,000" is offensive, classist language OP wasn't talking down. They used "only" to compare the difference in housing cost to the much higher difference in wages between rural and urban areas, as in $12K housing cost increase < $40k salary increase, not to imply that $12K is inconsequential in an absolute sense. $12K out of most people's pockets is a lot of money (including if it were out of mine), but the OP wasn't implying that it isn't. They were making a simple observation that: big city salary - big city housing costs > rural salary - rural housing costs Looks like they even responded below stating precisely that. There's real classism out there, often expressed across the rural/urban divide, but this isn't an example of it.