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**eduptultyt** · 06-14-2007, 08:56 PM

Originally posted by KrazyHorse

Que? My wife by herself makes between 5000 and 6000 USD a month, and that's not especially high. I'm a graduate student and even I make close to 2000 a month. $60-70k a year is middle class for a single person, but fairly high middle class. Your combined income is close to 100k a year, which for two people with no kids is pretty high middle class. With kids it would be more like just somewhat high middle class.

In any event, $8k/month still has a lot of disposable income, I think is Pekka's point (or should be...) House of $200k probably goes for about 1700/month mortgage cost, other bills $1k/month, so over 5k/month for food (depends on family size, but unlikely to be over 1k/month). That still leaves 4k/month unencumbered, which is a lot... and thus not someone who should be worrying too much about health costs unless they are really sick.

06-14-2007, 08:56 PM	#14
eduptultyt Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 548 Senior Member	Originally posted by KrazyHorse Que? My wife by herself makes between 5000 and 6000 USD a month, and that's not especially high. I'm a graduate student and even I make close to 2000 a month. $60-70k a year is middle class for a single person, but fairly high middle class. Your combined income is close to 100k a year, which for two people with no kids is pretty high middle class. With kids it would be more like just somewhat high middle class. In any event, $8k/month still has a lot of disposable income, I think is Pekka's point (or should be...) House of $200k probably goes for about 1700/month mortgage cost, other bills $1k/month, so over 5k/month for food (depends on family size, but unlikely to be over 1k/month). That still leaves 4k/month unencumbered, which is a lot... and thus not someone who should be worrying too much about health costs unless they are really sick.
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