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In reply to the discussion: I feel so out of place...To me $ 2 million is a fortune. But today I'm reading on DU that it isn't [View all]MissB
(15,812 posts)7. I'm pretty sure that DU runs the gamut in terms of income.
Plenty of folks own vacation homes and plenty of folks rent a small apartment.
I think most folks would think that 3 homes is a lot.
And I think that most folks would think that $2 mil is a lot.
Money gets kinda funky at the coasts and property gets kinda cheap in between. You can make a huge salary in San Francisco and live in a remarkably small home with no off street parking. You can live like a king with a very nice estate in flyover country on the same salary.
DU doesnt represent just one part of the country nor one economic class. Thats the beauty of being a Democrat. We have a big tent.
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I feel so out of place...To me $ 2 million is a fortune. But today I'm reading on DU that it isn't [View all]
lunamagica
Apr 2019
OP
Not if you qualify for Medicare. All the people I know on Medicare get a "gap" policy for
pnwmom
Apr 2019
#5
I think my mother's was higher than that, but I don't really know. She just had it automatically
pnwmom
Apr 2019
#9
I pay a lot for Plan G (it pays for almost everything Medicare base plan doesn't).
Honeycombe8
Apr 2019
#85
Oh. We don't have that. How can a state have a plan that works with Medicare...
Honeycombe8
Apr 2019
#91
A medigap or supplemental plan is NOT what is deducted from your Social Security.
llmart
Apr 2019
#57
That's the monthly payment that you make to Medicare--Part B of $135.50 per month in 2019
Bengus81
Apr 2019
#118
How can they afford to offer anything for no premium? Just wondering how that works. n/t
pnwmom
Apr 2019
#18
My wife goes on Medicare in June. Her gap policy costs $0. She added a dental/visiom/hearing benefit
stopbush
Apr 2019
#39
And the irony is that so many of these people were extremely critical of Hillary and Bill
pnwmom
Apr 2019
#3
I think they came out of the WH owing millions because of the legal fees from the continuous
deurbano
Apr 2019
#24
It is a lot of money. But the context of the discussion seems to be
The Velveteen Ocelot
Apr 2019
#11
"It's not that $2 million is a lot. It's that $15 an hour or SS is not enough."
Ohiogal
Apr 2019
#58
With socialism it would be possible. Simply by taxing the rich and equalizing the lower income...
Joe941
Apr 2019
#47
He doesn't have $2M cash. It's in those 3 houses, mainly. And continuing income.
Honeycombe8
Apr 2019
#89
Who said having money made you a bad person? My question was if mor Americans, the Average
lunamagica
Apr 2019
#82
I live in a 2006 Class A motorhome full time in an RV park, for now, in Crossville, Tn. That's my
SammyWinstonJack
Apr 2019
#38
Upper middle class is not the same as rich. A two income family of professionals (dentists, ....
jg10003
Apr 2019
#42
It is also not the same as "poor," or "poorest," terms that have both been ascribed at various times
pnwmom
Apr 2019
#117
It's tougher now for those starting out even if they graduated and got hired by the feds
nitpicker
Apr 2019
#52
well, everything is relative - to me, that's an inconceivable fortune...to a rich person, a pittance
anarch
Apr 2019
#50
What is this thread about??? Who has 2 million and 3 homes? Everything is relative.
sarabelle
Apr 2019
#53
The problems are caused by selfish people with evil intentions, not the number of zeroes
DFW
Apr 2019
#72
What are you talking about? My question was if most Americans thought that two million and three
lunamagica
Apr 2019
#81
After a lifetime of investments I hope to have to 2 million when I get close to retirement
aikoaiko
Apr 2019
#59
As I noted in a couple of those threads, to many, many people, $2.5m is a fortune.
TwilightZone
Apr 2019
#77
It's a matter of money as it relates to age, yrs of working, and income level.
Honeycombe8
Apr 2019
#84
I imagine that people who own three homes have staff to take care of all the unpleasant chores
lunamagica
Apr 2019
#95
Two million is well-off anywhere. Yes, even in places like Manhattan or San Francisco.
John Fante
Apr 2019
#101