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UCLAri · 04-20-2008, 03:01 PM

I know this has been done a bit already, but Gibson's comment on $200K being middle-class started some gears up in the noggin. What does middle-class mean in the US when the disparities in living costs in NYC vs. Topeka are so large?

Is Gibson as batpoop loco as people have made him out to be? Is it just that he's so used to living in NYC/LA/DC-priced areas that he can't see the rest of the forest anymore?

Or is $200K the "new middle-class" (or as I like to say, the Gibson-middle), and those of us only making it to a piddly $100K or so are just screwed?

04-20-2008, 03:01 PM	#1
UCLAri Super Moderator Join Date: Apr 2005 Threads: 219 Posts: 10,304	Are you part of the Gibson-middle class? I know this has been done a bit already, but Gibson's comment on $200K being middle-class started some gears up in the noggin. What does middle-class mean in the US when the disparities in living costs in NYC vs. Topeka are so large? Is Gibson as batpoop loco as people have made him out to be? Is it just that he's so used to living in NYC/LA/DC-priced areas that he can't see the rest of the forest anymore? Or is $200K the "new middle-class" (or as I like to say, the Gibson-middle), and those of us only making it to a piddly $100K or so are just screwed?