re: #147 Decatur Deb

I live in New York. collectively, my wife and I make under a hundred grand a year. We’re middle class, and perfectly comfortable. If we had an extra hundred and fifty thousand to play with, we’d be upper class.

And yes, the point is that NYC costs more because it’s worth more to live here. I’m paying for access to the incredible shit NYC has to offer. That means I have a huge material advantage over people out in Oklahoma.

Personally, I really like the country, so I think it’s undervalued, but in sheer capitalist terms, it’s worth more to live in NYC. So the arguments that someone making the same in NYC as somewhere else isn’t ‘middle class’ is just bogus.