This is absurd and totally out of touch with reality I live in an exurb of DC, in one of the highest cost of living areas with one of the highest median income

This is absurd and totally out of touch with reality I live in an exurb of DC, in one of the highest cost of living areas with one of the highest median income in the world. I have 3 kids who are all in middle and early high school (the most expensive time) and a mortgage and literally just did the math on what my MINIMUM income would need to be in order to maintain a extremely comfortable lifestyle and it’s between $80-100k a year. Anyone making more than ~100k a year isn’t living paycheck to paycheck unless they are spending way more than their means - which is actually most people