Are you wealthier or less well off than your local community?

[morgieb]

Average to slightly above average, I guess. The area I live in isn't super-wealthy, but very gentrified to an extent that most people here at least middle-class.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

In terms of actual amount of money passing through my family's hands, we're about on par with our neighborhood, which is one of three 'nice' areas in an otherwise struggling town. I'd say our class status is significantly higher, though, because most of our money comes from ROI on inherited assets (RIP my grandfather, lean FF) rather than from wages or salaries. (I know, I know, literally champagne socialist and massive HP.)

I'm taking a course next semester called 'Vocation, Work, and Faith', in which I'm hoping to clarify my personal feelings and theological beliefs about going to work versus adapting to a 'leisure class' lifestyle (and leaving the jobs for those who need them more; my disabilities make this option way more attractive than it would otherwise be to me) and how I feel about those options for myself. The second option wouldn't make me a golfing jet-setter but it would enable me to maintain a cosmetically middle-class lifestyle indefinitely.

[bagelman]

In terms of actual amount of money passing through my family's hands, we're about on par with our neighborhood, which is one of three 'nice' areas in an otherwise struggling town. I'd say our class status is significantly higher, though, because most of our money comes from ROI on inherited assets (RIP my grandfather, lean FF) rather than from wages or salaries. (I know, I know, literally champagne socialist and massive HP.)

I'm taking a course next semester called 'Vocation, Work, and Faith', in which I'm hoping to clarify my personal feelings and theological beliefs about going to work versus adapting to a 'leisure class' lifestyle (and leaving the jobs for those who need them more; my disabilities make this option way more attractive than it would otherwise be to me) and how I feel about those options for myself.

Do you volunteer to help the poor?

[DC Al Fine]

Much poorer. My wife works in a wealthy neighbourhood and we decided to live there so one of us could walk to work. We're moving the second she goes on mat leave, since we can get a house in most parts of town for the same rent as our apartment

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

In terms of actual amount of money passing through my family's hands, we're about on par with our neighborhood, which is one of three 'nice' areas in an otherwise struggling town. I'd say our class status is significantly higher, though, because most of our money comes from ROI on inherited assets (RIP my grandfather, lean FF) rather than from wages or salaries. (I know, I know, literally champagne socialist and massive HP.)

I'm taking a course next semester called 'Vocation, Work, and Faith', in which I'm hoping to clarify my personal feelings and theological beliefs about going to work versus adapting to a 'leisure class' lifestyle (and leaving the jobs for those who need them more; my disabilities make this option way more attractive than it would otherwise be to me) and how I feel about those options for myself.

Do you volunteer to help the poor?

Not as much as I want to or should. I've been told I'm unusually generous to panhandlers but that isn't really the same thing or an adequate substitute.

[fhtagn]

I live in Northern Virginia.

It's almost impossible to live on your own as a twenty something up here without roommates unless you manage to get lucky enough to snag a government/government contracting job that pays insanely well.

The city I live in is a lot of government workers/contractors who suck it up and deal with the long commute to DC, or military members who also make significantly more than I do.

I'm pretty less well off than my local community. Luckily my significant other lives with me and we found ways to make it work, otherwise we'd have to live with my family in order to live here.

[Derpist]

Significantly wealthier. I value a short commute over pretty much everything else.