Thursday, February 15, 2007

Do you feel rich?

Accoring to this article on MSN Money, if your household made over $91,000 in 2005, then you are "upper class", in the same category as Bill Gates, by the census bureau's standards. Most of my friends and family fit this bill. Yet I don't feel we have an "upper class" lifestyle. Maybe this is because most of our income goes to income taxes, property taxes, then mortgages, then high prices for gas and insurance, leaving us with little left over for hat shopping and yachting trips. But maybe everything's relative, living as I do in the shadow of Beverly Hills' billionaires, I would naturally feel quite poor by comparison. What do you think of the census bureau's figures? Comments, please.

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