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Re:Please Don't Show Us Another “Typical Family Earning $270... by eeeeeeeeeeeee on Friday December 22, 2017 @05:27PM (#15991435)
200k-400k is in no way "solidly middle class," nor is that true in any area in all of The United States. That income is very much upper class and puts you in the top 5% of earners in NJ, so it is in no way "middle" anything.

https://statisticalatlas.com/state/New-Jersey/Household-Inco...

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Re:Please Don't Show Us Another “Typical Family Earning $270... by betterunix2 on Friday December 22, 2017 @05:41PM (#15991519)
Upper class is a stretch. $200k is enough to live in a nice apartment and travel once or twice per year. It is not enough to pair a yacht with your condo (it is not even enough to afford most of the >1BR condos in Jersey City).

Maybe "upper middle class" but I don't see how anyone outside of the 1% can reasonably be called "very much upper class."

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