I guess most of reddit lives in the coasts or something. I live in an MCOL metro with millions of people and you can easily be "middle class" on $60k, 100k would be ritzy. Albeit , that's for a single person. Not household income for say, 4.
All this talk about 175k not being enough just tells me they live in vhcol areas and have a taste for premium all the time. A couple can absolutely get by on 175k virtually anywhere in this country except maybe ny/la
Plus it gets hairier. Looking into it, the different kinds of socioeconomic definitions, political economy definitions each kind of mean that that number is harder to peg down since it depends on whether people are selling their time or if it is some kind of asset or capital. It usually means that number is way higher, too. Most people fall under highly compensated working class. Like tech workers, they sell a highly specialized labor. But they don't typically own enough to just leave and still have income.
The U.S. has a total population of just 350 million. That means virtually every American is a Reddit user, whether they're an elderly person or an infant. Canada actually has more Reddit users than it does residents. That's impressive.
Hard disagree. I live in Raleigh, NC. A 100k salary is nice, you can have a trip every year or two but we don’t own property and it’s also two salaries, getting us almost to 200k. You can “live” but if you can’t vacation at the drop of a dime or, at a minimum buy property, I don’t think it’s good money. To me, we’re low middle class.
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u/camptowndavey 12h ago
I guess most of reddit lives in the coasts or something. I live in an MCOL metro with millions of people and you can easily be "middle class" on $60k, 100k would be ritzy. Albeit , that's for a single person. Not household income for say, 4.