What’s your definition of being rich?

[sdrealtor]

I dont believe I am confusing happiness with monetary wealth. I believe where you stand depends upon where you sit.

I grew up in a very upper middle class area back East. It was at least as wealthy as Carmel Valley if not more so. When my wife and I were in grad school we rented a home in a lesser area. One of her friends commented that we lived in a “white trash area”. My response to her friend (besides being appaled she would use such language) was that most of my friends considered her to be white trash based upon where she grew up.

My best friend then married someone from the upper class area. She wouldnt live in his hometown because she considered it a lesser area. Being rich is all relative and depends upon your expectations. If you have enough money to enjoy your life on your own terms, you are rich in my book. The rest is all window dressing.

[Anonymous]

Rich is a relative term: the scale isn’t in dollars, it’s measured by how many people are below you. And If you’re richer than 19 out of 20 households, you’re just plain rich.

If you feel your top 5% income (minimum of around $166K) leaves you in the middle class:
a. you’re doing it wrong. (I couldn’t find a good statistic for the cutoff for the top 5% household net worth). If you want to feel rich: don’t have kids, don’t get sick, and don’t get divorced.
b. Lower your expectations. You’re just rich, not ultra-rich. Sorry.
c. Think about how you would be getting by on an actual middle class income, say the median ($48K) or double the median ($96K) income. I know it’s shocking and unpleasant to imagine, but somehow people do it.

[Anonymous]

Rich is a relative term: the scale isn’t in dollars, it’s measured by how many people are below you. And If you’re richer than 19 out of 20 households, you’re just plain rich.

If you feel your top 5% income (minimum of around $166K) leaves you in the middle class:
a. you’re doing it wrong. (I couldn’t find a good statistic for the cutoff for the top 5% household net worth). If you want to feel rich: don’t have kids, don’t get sick, and don’t get divorced.
b. Lower your expectations. You’re just rich, not ultra-rich. Sorry.
c. Think about how you would be getting by on an actual middle class income, say the median ($48K) or double the median ($96K) income. I know it’s shocking and unpleasant to imagine, but somehow people do it.

[Anonymous]

Rich is a relative term: the scale isn’t in dollars, it’s measured by how many people are below you. And If you’re richer than 19 out of 20 households, you’re just plain rich.

If you feel your top 5% income (minimum of around $166K) leaves you in the middle class:
a. you’re doing it wrong. (I couldn’t find a good statistic for the cutoff for the top 5% household net worth). If you want to feel rich: don’t have kids, don’t get sick, and don’t get divorced.
b. Lower your expectations. You’re just rich, not ultra-rich. Sorry.
c. Think about how you would be getting by on an actual middle class income, say the median ($48K) or double the median ($96K) income. I know it’s shocking and unpleasant to imagine, but somehow people do it.

[Anonymous]

Rich is a relative term: the scale isn’t in dollars, it’s measured by how many people are below you. And If you’re richer than 19 out of 20 households, you’re just plain rich.

If you feel your top 5% income (minimum of around $166K) leaves you in the middle class:
a. you’re doing it wrong. (I couldn’t find a good statistic for the cutoff for the top 5% household net worth). If you want to feel rich: don’t have kids, don’t get sick, and don’t get divorced.
b. Lower your expectations. You’re just rich, not ultra-rich. Sorry.
c. Think about how you would be getting by on an actual middle class income, say the median ($48K) or double the median ($96K) income. I know it’s shocking and unpleasant to imagine, but somehow people do it.

[Anonymous]

Rich is a relative term: the scale isn’t in dollars, it’s measured by how many people are below you. And If you’re richer than 19 out of 20 households, you’re just plain rich.

If you feel your top 5% income (minimum of around $166K) leaves you in the middle class:
a. you’re doing it wrong. (I couldn’t find a good statistic for the cutoff for the top 5% household net worth). If you want to feel rich: don’t have kids, don’t get sick, and don’t get divorced.
b. Lower your expectations. You’re just rich, not ultra-rich. Sorry.
c. Think about how you would be getting by on an actual middle class income, say the median ($48K) or double the median ($96K) income. I know it’s shocking and unpleasant to imagine, but somehow people do it.

[dharmagirl]

If any of you have ever traveled to developing countries, you will soon realize that most of the people in the U.S. are ‘rich’ to some degree.

When you get up close and personal with dire, horrible poverty, it hits you between the eyes. Or it should.

Seeing see sick people who cant afford simple medical procedures, or food to keep their families alive, made me realize that decisions like “BMW or Mercedes” or “Gucci vs. Chanel” are, in the grand scheme of things, ridiculous.

For example, in many parts of the world a simple cataract surgery would cost about $200 – but many people die everyday because they dont have access to this kind of treatment and cannot provide for their families.

In 50 years, will it matter if you lived in Derby Hill or RSF or La Jolla? Probably not. Will it matter if you restored eye sight or provided vaccinations to 50 people? Absolutely.

I dont mean to be on a soap box, but I think people are as rich as they want to be. I know many people who have millions of dollars and are not “rich” at all. They are actually miserable and unhappy people. I’ve met families in developing countries who have very little but are genuinely, insanely happy because they have loving families and food in their bellies.

So, now that I’ve spouted off my opinion(s), if I had to define “rich” I would say it would be having enough money to provide for my family AND have enough to make an impact on the world – to make a difference.

Then again, I’m a bleeding heart liberal (although my husband thinks I’m a socialist).

[dharmagirl]

If any of you have ever traveled to developing countries, you will soon realize that most of the people in the U.S. are ‘rich’ to some degree.

When you get up close and personal with dire, horrible poverty, it hits you between the eyes. Or it should.

Seeing see sick people who cant afford simple medical procedures, or food to keep their families alive, made me realize that decisions like “BMW or Mercedes” or “Gucci vs. Chanel” are, in the grand scheme of things, ridiculous.

For example, in many parts of the world a simple cataract surgery would cost about $200 – but many people die everyday because they dont have access to this kind of treatment and cannot provide for their families.

In 50 years, will it matter if you lived in Derby Hill or RSF or La Jolla? Probably not. Will it matter if you restored eye sight or provided vaccinations to 50 people? Absolutely.

I dont mean to be on a soap box, but I think people are as rich as they want to be. I know many people who have millions of dollars and are not “rich” at all. They are actually miserable and unhappy people. I’ve met families in developing countries who have very little but are genuinely, insanely happy because they have loving families and food in their bellies.

So, now that I’ve spouted off my opinion(s), if I had to define “rich” I would say it would be having enough money to provide for my family AND have enough to make an impact on the world – to make a difference.

Then again, I’m a bleeding heart liberal (although my husband thinks I’m a socialist).

[dharmagirl]

If any of you have ever traveled to developing countries, you will soon realize that most of the people in the U.S. are ‘rich’ to some degree.

When you get up close and personal with dire, horrible poverty, it hits you between the eyes. Or it should.

Seeing see sick people who cant afford simple medical procedures, or food to keep their families alive, made me realize that decisions like “BMW or Mercedes” or “Gucci vs. Chanel” are, in the grand scheme of things, ridiculous.

For example, in many parts of the world a simple cataract surgery would cost about $200 – but many people die everyday because they dont have access to this kind of treatment and cannot provide for their families.

In 50 years, will it matter if you lived in Derby Hill or RSF or La Jolla? Probably not. Will it matter if you restored eye sight or provided vaccinations to 50 people? Absolutely.

I dont mean to be on a soap box, but I think people are as rich as they want to be. I know many people who have millions of dollars and are not “rich” at all. They are actually miserable and unhappy people. I’ve met families in developing countries who have very little but are genuinely, insanely happy because they have loving families and food in their bellies.

So, now that I’ve spouted off my opinion(s), if I had to define “rich” I would say it would be having enough money to provide for my family AND have enough to make an impact on the world – to make a difference.

Then again, I’m a bleeding heart liberal (although my husband thinks I’m a socialist).

[dharmagirl]

If any of you have ever traveled to developing countries, you will soon realize that most of the people in the U.S. are ‘rich’ to some degree.

When you get up close and personal with dire, horrible poverty, it hits you between the eyes. Or it should.

Seeing see sick people who cant afford simple medical procedures, or food to keep their families alive, made me realize that decisions like “BMW or Mercedes” or “Gucci vs. Chanel” are, in the grand scheme of things, ridiculous.

For example, in many parts of the world a simple cataract surgery would cost about $200 – but many people die everyday because they dont have access to this kind of treatment and cannot provide for their families.

In 50 years, will it matter if you lived in Derby Hill or RSF or La Jolla? Probably not. Will it matter if you restored eye sight or provided vaccinations to 50 people? Absolutely.

I dont mean to be on a soap box, but I think people are as rich as they want to be. I know many people who have millions of dollars and are not “rich” at all. They are actually miserable and unhappy people. I’ve met families in developing countries who have very little but are genuinely, insanely happy because they have loving families and food in their bellies.

So, now that I’ve spouted off my opinion(s), if I had to define “rich” I would say it would be having enough money to provide for my family AND have enough to make an impact on the world – to make a difference.

Then again, I’m a bleeding heart liberal (although my husband thinks I’m a socialist).

[dharmagirl]

If any of you have ever traveled to developing countries, you will soon realize that most of the people in the U.S. are ‘rich’ to some degree.

When you get up close and personal with dire, horrible poverty, it hits you between the eyes. Or it should.

Seeing see sick people who cant afford simple medical procedures, or food to keep their families alive, made me realize that decisions like “BMW or Mercedes” or “Gucci vs. Chanel” are, in the grand scheme of things, ridiculous.

For example, in many parts of the world a simple cataract surgery would cost about $200 – but many people die everyday because they dont have access to this kind of treatment and cannot provide for their families.

In 50 years, will it matter if you lived in Derby Hill or RSF or La Jolla? Probably not. Will it matter if you restored eye sight or provided vaccinations to 50 people? Absolutely.

I dont mean to be on a soap box, but I think people are as rich as they want to be. I know many people who have millions of dollars and are not “rich” at all. They are actually miserable and unhappy people. I’ve met families in developing countries who have very little but are genuinely, insanely happy because they have loving families and food in their bellies.

So, now that I’ve spouted off my opinion(s), if I had to define “rich” I would say it would be having enough money to provide for my family AND have enough to make an impact on the world – to make a difference.

Then again, I’m a bleeding heart liberal (although my husband thinks I’m a socialist).

[Anonymous]

dharmagirl, good point. I often complain about the US and there are certainly things that need to be changed, but when you consider other countries, it’s a nice place to live.

[Anonymous]

dharmagirl, good point. I often complain about the US and there are certainly things that need to be changed, but when you consider other countries, it’s a nice place to live.

[Anonymous]

dharmagirl, good point. I often complain about the US and there are certainly things that need to be changed, but when you consider other countries, it’s a nice place to live.

[Anonymous]

dharmagirl, good point. I often complain about the US and there are certainly things that need to be changed, but when you consider other countries, it’s a nice place to live.

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