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Discussion by **O-Face** · September 2011 · Home› Wedding Discussion Boards› Wedding Woes

Do you consider you and your H "middle class"?
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Reply by 6fsn · September 2011 · Home› Wedding Discussion Boards› Wedding Woes

I was thinking about this the other day. When I was working I would have put us in the upper middle class/upper class range. Even though our money puts us pretty dead on middle class now, I still think we are in a better situation than most middle class households. We pay our bills. Save for retirement. Save for college.…
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Reply by PMeg819 · September 2011 · Home› Wedding Discussion Boards› Wedding Woes

I can't answer this in anyway that doesn't make me sound elitist or snobby.
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Reply by mattycam · September 2011 · Home› Wedding Discussion Boards› Wedding Woes

I think we fall into the lower middle class range even though we pay our bills, are able to save and go out from time to time.
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Reply by DG1 · September 2011 · Home› Wedding Discussion Boards› Wedding Woes

We know from the statistics that we aren't. But it sure feels like it, and I know the vast majority of the rest of america feels that way. And yes, COL is a huge factor in that.
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Reply by TheDuckis · September 2011 · Home› Wedding Discussion Boards› Wedding Woes

I'll be honest. If we moved to even an average COL area I'd consider us well upper class. But here we're probably smack dab in the middle. I know people who make more who live paycheck to paycheck because of the lifestyle out here. We drive beater cars and our rent is insanely cheap. We are stressed about having a kid and…
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Reply by DG1 · September 2011 · Home› Wedding Discussion Boards› Wedding Woes

Here's a fun distribution graph. http://visualizingeconomics.com/2006/11/05/2005-us-income-distribution/ So if you make more than $166k/yr (household), you're actually in the top 5% of incomes in the country. More than $91,705, and you're in the top 20% - by definition above middle class. And yes, the graph doesn't take…
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Reply by **O-Face** · September 2011 · Home› Wedding Discussion Boards› Wedding Woes

I was just wondering because it is funny that in some places people who make $250K+ still consider themselves "middle class". Meh.
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Reply by jojobrn · September 2011 · Home› Wedding Discussion Boards› Wedding Woes

We are upper middle class for sure, even for our area. We have newer cars, a mortgage and we travel. So certainly not truly middle class.
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Reply by PMeg819 · September 2011 · Home› Wedding Discussion Boards› Wedding Woes

In our area, I'd say we weren't middle class. But AZ has been hard hit by layoffs and the decline in the housing industry. The last 5 years have really redefined what middle class in AZ is. With out income, in this area, I wouldn't call us middle class. If we lived some where else, I'd say we were middle class.

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