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- Mike - 11-09-2008
Feersty Wrote:I am less than 30 yrs old, and making 250,000$ combined household income in Northern Virginia, is approx = to making $173,762 in San Antonio, which is much more possible after 5-10 years, than 250,000$ in either place.
whut? all i got was "173k is less than 250k."
- Apoc - 11-09-2008
Ginger Wrote:With two college educated adults under the same roof $250K isn't unrealistic at all... I'm not quite sure I understand why so many college kids (income potential IS why most folks go to school) think it's stratospheric.
Probably because people who are 20 can't imagine what it's like to be 40. If you adjusted the medians based on "people they know" or in other words, framed it based on their world, the median would be considerably lower. It ain't ballin' if your aggregate household age is 90, but the comment wasn't really directed at anyone like that... much less Feersty.
- Ginger - 11-09-2008
Granted, and I know what you mean about the intended audience, it's just that the commentators seem to lack... well, anyway, you know what I mean
- Evan - 11-09-2008
I think you're being naive if you think $250k is the hard "Barry bends you over" number.
He lowered it to $200k shortly after the debates, and Biden said $150k a couple weeks before the election.
gotta 'spread the wealth around' for 'economic justice'
- .RJ - 11-09-2008
Evan Wrote:gotta 'spread the wealth around' for 'economic justice'
Dont forget, its patriotic too.
- Feersty - 11-09-2008
Apoc Wrote:Ginger Wrote:With two college educated adults under the same roof $250K isn't unrealistic at all... I'm not quite sure I understand why so many college kids (income potential IS why most folks go to school) think it's stratospheric.
Probably because people who are 20 can't imagine what it's like to be 40. If you adjusted the medians based on "people they know" or in other words, framed it based on their world, the median would be considerably lower. It ain't ballin' if your aggregate household age is 90, but the comment wasn't really directed at anyone like that... much less Feersty.
Yes, I do understand this. I have 3 years in industry for God's sake.
- Apoc - 11-09-2008
Evan Wrote:I think you're being naive if you think $250k is the hard "Barry bends you over" number.
He lowered it to $200k shortly after the debates, and Biden said $150k a couple weeks before the election.
Still prolly doesn't impact anyone that posts here. Well, except maybe that Ole dude.
(...and no, I'm not saying I agree with it.)
- Apoc - 11-09-2008
Feersty Wrote:Apoc Wrote:Ginger Wrote:With two college educated adults under the same roof $250K isn't unrealistic at all... I'm not quite sure I understand why so many college kids (income potential IS why most folks go to school) think it's stratospheric.
Probably because people who are 20 can't imagine what it's like to be 40. If you adjusted the medians based on "people they know" or in other words, framed it based on their world, the median would be considerably lower. It ain't ballin' if your aggregate household age is 90, but the comment wasn't really directed at anyone like that... much less Feersty.
Yes, I do understand this. I have 3 years in industry for God's sake.
Well you clearly don't have enough years in the industry to follow conversation properly.
- G.Irish - 11-09-2008
Ginger Wrote:These are median income figures - that means there are a signficant number of people both above, and below the mark.That's household income is it not? In that case, $250k is 2.5 times higher than the highest average household income community in the country.
20 Highest income Communities in th United States:
$250k is not totally out there but it's fairly uncommon. Even with a college education there are not a ton of fields that pay more than $125k a year in salary until you get into executive positions (or graduate degreesz). Technical fields and stuff like law and medicine do, but then you'd need two people under the same roof with jobs like that.
Like Chris said though, it also depends on the age bracket. By the time a couple is in their forties they're much more likely to be in that income bracket.
- Ginger - 11-10-2008
Just to put that in perpsective:
guesstimating the US population at 300,000,000: there were 40,621,000 colle graduates in the US in 2003. That's only 13.5%. Figure in the chances that college educated people marry other college grads, and stay together (considering marriage success statistics are at like, 50%, and college grads don't marry only college grads), AND that they do well with their degrees (as there are plenty of total failures with higher education), I think it's totally fair to cut the number in half: you're at under 7% of households in America by education alone.
So sure, it's easy to say that few people in the US really have baller earning potential... but that's why we're going [went] to college, isn't it?
- CaptainHenreh - 11-10-2008
Guesstimate is a stupid word.
An estimate is, by definition, a guess.
- Ginger - 11-10-2008
Rex, I hate you.
That is all.
Since when did compounds and synonyms become stupid by virtue of their duplicity? Go pick on Webster.
- CaptainHenreh - 11-10-2008
I think irregardless is pretty stupid too.
- Hunter - 11-10-2008
Rex is such a Guesstihater.
- Ginger - 11-10-2008
For the record: webster says to use regardless instead of irregardless. Guesstimate, however, is defined as an estimate without all the necessary information to make an informed estimation.
SMB, Rex.
- CaptainHenreh - 11-10-2008
That doesn't mean it *isn't* stupid.
- Ginger - 11-10-2008
Let it be known that, handed down from the Chair of Rex, linguistic justice shall be dispensed with the fury of the hounds of hell. Dictionary-based pain and suffering shall begin tomorrow. Thank you. That is all.
- Evan - 11-10-2008
the more important question is how perfectly intelligent people have gotten suckered into the Class Warfare hysteria where thinking that just because an anticaptialist tax hike doesnt affect you or your friends makes it ok?
- Apoc - 11-10-2008
CaptainHenreh Wrote:An estimate is, by definition, a guess.
...but an educated one. That means it's earns $250k/year.
- Apoc - 11-10-2008
Evan Wrote:the more important question is how perfectly intelligent people have gotten suckered into the Class Warfare hysteria where thinking that just because an anticaptialist tax hike doesnt affect you or your friends makes it ok?
There's a difference between being okay with it an accepting it (for now) because it doesn't impact you. It has to with a desire to address more immediate concerns that DO impact.
When I want to buy an assault weapon I'll care about that one too. :wink: