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This is a sad article with unfortunate subjects. However I'm not convinced that the movement of people from apartments to vehicles is always a "sort of homelessness." I personally know people who are planning to move into a van to work remote, and there's definitely no shortage of blogs and instagrams from those people. Many of them are doing it to save money, but could live in a home if they chose to. The real issue…
You are not middle class if:
- you will lose home, car if you are out of job for 6-10 months;
- you don't take 30 days vacation a year;
- you cannot afford health services without going to debt;
- you cannot send your kids to university;
- your diet is mostly junk food because you can't afford fresh stuff.
If some of the above is true, you are poor.
There is a linguistic problem here - extending the term 'middle class' to hide prevailing poverty in the US. You are not middle class if: - you will lose home, car if you are out of job for 6-10 months; - you don't take 30 days vacation a year; - you cannot afford health services without going to debt; - you cannot send your kids to university; - your diet is mostly junk food because you can't afford fresh stuff. If…
I would guess about 80%+
I've met tenured computer science professors at UC Santa Barbara who couldn't afford to live in Santa Barbara. That place is nuts. Similar situation with Stanford and Palo Alto.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Serious question: why are you having children in such a financially precarious situation when it’s only going to increase your living costs? EDIT: by “financially precarious” I mean that above you said you were a new grad having difficulty finding work. I assume it is your intent to work after the baby is born (rather than being the primary caregiver) or it wouldn’t matter so much about finding work. If your wife ret…
Not everyone "decides" to have kids. Sometimes it just happens.
There is a linguistic problem here - extending the term 'middle class' to hide prevailing poverty in the US. You are not middle class if: - you will lose home, car if you are out of job for 6-10 months; - you don't take 30 days vacation a year; - you cannot afford health services without going to debt; - you cannot send your kids to university; - your diet is mostly junk food because you can't afford fresh stuff. If…
There is a linguistic problem here - extending the term 'middle class' to hide prevailing poverty in the US. You are not middle class if: - you will lose home, car if you are out of job for 6-10 months; - you don't take 30 days vacation a year; - you cannot afford health services without going to debt; - you cannot send your kids to university; - your diet is mostly junk food because you can't afford fresh stuff. If…
by your measure most people in the USA are poor I would guess about 80%+
Earlier quoted context omitted.
by your measure most people in the USA are poor I would guess about 80%+
Which bullet points - if not all- would you exclude from the list to make it relevant ?
Every other part of that entire list is, sadly enough, "normal middle class" in the US.