I got into it with someone else on a different thread, but if you’re in the top quintile of income, you are “rich”. If you are in the top 1%, have net assets of $1m+, you are “super rich”. In 2004 to be “rich” a household needed about $88k per year, nationally. From what I could find about San Diego, it’s probably comparable, perhaps a few thousand higher. With inflation I’d be willing to grant it’s probably close to $100k/year in San Diego to be “rich”.
One HUGE problem in this country is those of means tend to think of themselves in the middle, focusing more on the very few who make more than them than the huge numbers who make less.
