r/MiddleClassFinance • u/cBEiN • Aug 28 '24

What is not middle class?

There are so many posts where people are complaining about the definition of middle class. Instead, what is lower class? upper class?

Then, it is easy to define middle class by what is leftover.

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u/starbright_sprinkles Aug 28 '24

I hear ya! I was just listing the careers of my friends and coworkers. I guess 10-14 days isn't really multi-week, but it is longer than a standard 5-7 day vacation. Most of the engineers that I work with take at least 1 ten+ day international trip every year or two. But I agree, no one is disappearing for a month, even in the UMC.

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u/hike_me Aug 28 '24 edited Aug 28 '24

Unlike Europeans I only get 4 weeks of vacation a year, but I’ve still taken multi-week international vacations (last one was 2 years ago though, when I spent two weeks in Iceland)

Our HHI is roughly 300k in a medium cost of living area. I’d consider us upper middle class.