I'm guessing you make close to 350k or over it. 80k a year is a ton of money. It's not so great in the bay area, but in the vast majority of the country, and ev

I'm guessing you make close to 350k or over it. 80k a year is a ton of money. It's not so great in the bay area, but in the vast majority of the country, and even in the bay area it's life changing money. It covers a lot. I'm sick of reading defenses of people making 250k+ acting like they're in the poor house. I get families are expensive, but lifestyles have inflated to such an absurd degree. I've been on both sides of this argument, but it's so frustrating. I def agree with the median sucking, however I know plenty of people IN the median that feel differently. It's so strange to hear all this doom and gloom from people like me. I get that we don't have all the luxeries we were promised. In the 90s it would have been $90-150k and you would have a vacation house. These were really prosperous times if you were in the middle class. I get that we've experienced a bit of a "darth vader I changed the deal moment". There seems to be more expenses and we're getting less out of the deal (though more in some other ways). All that said, you're comparing against very prosperous people who were getting a pretty good deal.