There was an MSNBC article awhile back about how super-earners were getting married and creating a new crew of rich people. Supposedly it was a matter of like-minded, successful people naturally congregating together.
As for me, I do not make $100k, but I do come close. For a land surveyor, that is pretty good. My wife makes over $100k as well, and she is an electrical engineer.
We don’t actually know a lot of people who make more than $100k, we are the exception in our circle of friends and family (admittedly, though, we don’t socialize much outside of that circle). In fact the only person we know who makes over $100k is a rich uncle lawyer who works up in San Francisco. All our other family members are working class and have been that way for several years.
I can’t really say that we are modest in our lifestyle, because we do eat out every week, but we have a modest home, a minivan and a station wagon (honda & saturn). Is that modest nowadays? Our one luxury is a plasma tv (our old tv was dying). Bought it on credit, but it had a one year no interest thing, so it was paid off before they charged me interest. Bwahahaha.
