> I can’t read the article

"Upper middle class" for a family is $133k according to them.

Things look very rosy for our economy as long as you're using 1963 numbers as your poverty baseline and extrapolating from there.

$133k is upper middle class. It just doesn't feel like upper middle class if you're living in NYC or San Francisco.

	▲	pharaohgeek 7 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It doesn't feel like it if you're living in MOST places. I bought my first house 6 months after graduating from college (2000). It cost me roughly 3x my salary at the time. I know what I pay new grads right now, and it's way more than I made back then. There's no way they can afford a house like that at 3x their salary. It's closer to 4-5x, and we are nowhere near as expensive in this area as NYC, SF, DC, etc.
	▲	bayarearefugee 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		133k for a family of 3 is effectively poverty wages in NYC or SF. In less HCOL areas it is getting by, but possibly never owning a house. Hardly the upper middle class lifestyle one imagines being lived by doctors, lawyers, etc in times past.