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$50k is lower middle class in this area. I didn't say that wouldn't suck. I said that I am by no means elite. Nor upper middle class. Upper middle class peo
by pyrrhotech 13y ago
$50k is lower middle class in this area. I didn't say that wouldn't suck. I said that I am by no means elite. Nor upper middle class. Upper middle class people can at least afford to pick a reasonable 3/2 house in an area with good schools. I can't do that. Elite people can have mansions and multiple homes and they don't need to work. They aren't the techies riding the WiFi shuttles to work. No engineer is elite.
- nilkn 13y agoI don't agree with most of those statements. You're not in a small rural or even medium sized town. San Francisco is one of the most popular cities in the US and the world. Even very wealthy people generally make sacrifices to live there. What you lose in square feet you make up for in location. That's the whole point of cities. It doesn't make sense to treat San Francisco as if it were a town of 100k people where everybody lives in houses, because it's not. The traditional metrics (middle class = 3/2 house with a yard) do not apply to cities like Manhattan and San Francisco. I also don't think it's right to ignore your buying power relative to the rest of the US. Maybe you only have a downpayment for a San Francisco condo, but that might suffice for you to pay cash for a house in many somewhat affluent suburban communities throughout the country. Social classes are nationwide strata--you can't lose focus by literally looking at a single city and deciding that you're middle class or lower just because you're not a multimillionaire.