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Re:Middle class leaving San Francisco, census says by waterlesscloud on Sunday February 09, 2014 @02:51AM (#7204789)
"Upper class is people other than us."

Go ahead, enter your household income here, find out where you really fall.

http://politicalcalculations.blogspot.com/2013/09/what-is-yo...

Hint- if you're a techie in SF, you're reaaaaallll near the top.

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Re:Middle class leaving San Francisco, census says by anovikov on Sunday February 09, 2014 @03:04AM (#7204811)
Hahaha it shows percentiles above 100% for income above 220k for women and 450k for men (both unmarried and living alone = all 3 figures equal) - that javascript is broken.
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Re:Middle class leaving San Francisco, census says by klipt on Sunday February 09, 2014 @03:47AM (#7204900)
US rank isn't very informative though. It doesn't take into account cost of living, or (assuming they're using pre-tax salary) even the difference in state taxes.

A comfortable salary in Houston would be much less comfortable in San Francisco because you're suddenly paying 10% of your income to state taxes and paying 4x as much rent.

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Re:Middle class leaving San Francisco, census says by anovikov on Sunday February 09, 2014 @05:25AM (#7205076)
Correct. Most of people who are statistically upper class (meaning '1%') are living in much pricier places so they don't really feel so upper.
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