re: Salary you need to be considered middle class in every U.S. state

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If you make 61k in California you are poor

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We're well above that but you have a few cities along the coast that pump up those numbers. LA, SF, SD & San Jose markets don't reflect where I'm at at all.

If we made 61k things would be very tight for sure but not really poor. We were poor growing up. There's no Kraft Mac n' cheese with hot dogs for dinner, sugar sandwiches (literally just white bread and sugar), patches on torn pants, shoes from Payless and living in really bad neighborhoods going on here even at 61k.

I used to go to my best friend's house often for dinner because they actually had real homemade food.