Yea, as someone whose household income falls into that listed upper middle, is fairly frugal, and lives in a relatively lower cost area… I still feel on the low end of middle class. Everything is so expensive, it’s hard to get ahead no matter what you do these days.
I know what you mean. I’m not hurting and I live a good life. But what I could have done with this kind of money just 5 or 10 years ago is far greater than now. Not just inflationary greater. It’s almost like the kinds of things that only went up only as much as inflation are luxuries. Everything in the bottom tier of Maslow’s Hierarchy except air and sleep seemed to get way more expensive than inflation can account for.
Or I’m just getting old and miss getting gas for $0.79
Yea, as someone whose household income falls into that listed upper middle, is fairly frugal, and lives in a relatively lower cost area… I still feel on the low end of middle class. Everything is so expensive, it’s hard to get ahead no matter what you do these days.
I know what you mean. I’m not hurting and I live a good life. But what I could have done with this kind of money just 5 or 10 years ago is far greater than now. Not just inflationary greater. It’s almost like the kinds of things that only went up only as much as inflation are luxuries. Everything in the bottom tier of Maslow’s Hierarchy except air and sleep seemed to get way more expensive than inflation can account for.
Or I’m just getting old and miss getting gas for $0.79