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In reply to the discussion: $20,833.00 per month???? [View all]Orrex
(63,199 posts)Last edited Sat Dec 29, 2012, 01:21 AM - Edit history (1)
No kidding it's not middle class.
My point is that there's no excuse for burning through $5000 per week, regardless of rent or bills, outside of catastrophic medical costs.
The argument that sky-high Manhattan rent justifies such huge expenditures is preposterous. It is in fact an argent for living somewhere else and commuting.
I don't doubt that one can burn through $5000 per week with relative ease. My point is that one's ability to do so speaks of wild financial irresponsibility rather than the hardship of making ends meet when those ends are a quarter million dollars apart.
I know that $250K isn't middle class. I simply dispute the legitimacy of the claim that non-voluntary costs of living make it hard to get by on such a pittance.