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Old 08-22-2016, 01:57 PM
 
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True, I don't know why they used Burbank as an example anyway. You might as well be in middle America if you live in Burbank. All of LA's attractions are hours away due to traffic, and you have to deal with the Valley weather.
Not true. Burbank is one of the nicest places to live in the LA area. You will find few other topics that are as overwhelmingly held as consensus on this C-D subforum. Unless one works on the west side it is more conveniently located to LA's attractions than Santa Monica or Brentwood. (Although SM has nicer weather...)
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Old 08-22-2016, 02:07 PM
 
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Not true. Burbank is one of the nicest places to live in the LA area. You will find few other topics that are as overwhelmingly held as consensus on this C-D subforum. Unless one works on the west side it is more conveniently located to LA's attractions than Santa Monica or Brentwood. (Although SM has nicer weather...)
Burbank is safe and clean but I don't think it fits the OP's definition of a great place to live. They stressed the importance of having top quality attractions at your fingertips (theater, Parks, Concerts, etc) and Burbank is basically like the downtown area of a small college town. Its cute, but hardly a place that you would travel to see. I'm sure there are plenty of Burbanks in middle America.
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Old 08-22-2016, 02:17 PM
 
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Burbank is safe and clean but I don't think it fits the OP's definition of a great place to live. They stressed the importance of having top quality attractions at your fingertips (theater, Parks, Concerts, etc) and Burbank is basically like the downtown area of a small college town. Its cute, but hardly a place that you would travel to see. I'm sure there are plenty of Burbanks in middle America.
Burbank is more convenient to Hollywood, Silver Lake, and Downtown than the westside is, even Culver City....
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Old 08-22-2016, 02:25 PM
 
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Burbank does have a Great Cruise Night at Bob's Big Boy every Friday :-)
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Old 08-22-2016, 02:58 PM
 
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Burbank is more convenient to Hollywood, Silver Lake, and Downtown than the westside is, even Culver City....
And Universal Studios.
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Old 08-22-2016, 03:00 PM
 
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Ok. So the article agrees that 200k a year is NOT middle class and more like top 5-10%.
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Old 08-22-2016, 03:45 PM
 
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Ok. So the article agrees that 200k a year is NOT middle class and more like top 5-10%.
Depends on where you live, NY and here it's upper middle class, not rich like most who live here think.
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Old 08-22-2016, 04:22 PM
 
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Cause that's the reality for most middle-lower class Angelinans. The people who actually get to enjoy the perks of living in LA are the ones that can afford to pay $2k just for a studio apartment.
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Ridiculous. You can even find studios for less than that in crime filled, roach infested towns like Studio City or Beverly Hills

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Why do you need a 4 bedroom house if it's just you, your wife, and one child?

At 48 I doubt you're expecting any more kids.
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Good Question.

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So everyone is living in a roach infested crap shack? Unless they pay $2K for a studio.

I must tell my cousin's son, he pays $1,700 a month total for a nice two bed/two bath in Burbank. And no he hasn't been living there for years and years.
You went on the high end. Someone just told me they were paying $1400 for a 2 bedroom Burbank Apartment

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I said 3 OR 4 bedroom, spouse will work when kid starts school full time in two years; it's on me till then.

My definition of living well in Los Angeles is owning your own house in a good area that you CAN actually afford monthly with above average schools if you have kids, and no more than a 20 minute commute to work.
Dude, what you described is an upper class lifestyle. That's beyond living well. And if you need more cash , then put the wife to work NOW!. Allowing her to stay home is a personal choice.

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True, I don't know why they used Burbank as an example anyway. You might as well be in middle America if you live in Burbank. All of LA's attractions are hours away due to traffic, and you have to deal with the Valley weather.
This comment here means you're now creating things to fit you own argument and can no longer be taken seriously. Burbank is Middle America huh? Universal Studios is literally next door; it houses both Warner Brothers and Disney Studios, tons of places to eat and shop, about 6-7 miles from Hollywood.....you have a warped idea on what Middle America really is. Maybe it is time for you to go. Go enjoy that big house somewhere in the woods.

And BTW, what was wrong with that apartment I saw in the pics? For those complaining about space, you need to go check out NYC where 500K gets you about 1000 square feet and you could possibly be parking somewhere down the street. And I'm not talking Manhatten.

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Old 08-22-2016, 04:31 PM
 
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OP, the medical field is a well compensated field. Why do you say you will never be able to buy a condo, at least? A registered nurse makes $30/hr and a nurse practitioner makes 100k. Eh, even if you can't buy the condo by yourself, you can at least have a really nice room in a nice shared apartment.
Most people who have lived on their own consider "a really nice room in a nice shared apartment" to be a significant downgrade.

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Sure, you can move to a flyover state, and the single family home will be cheap. But there's nothing to do except stay in your cheap single family home.
Not everything outside of the West Coast is flyover state. There are plenty of desirable places to live with a lower cost of living that still have plenty of things to do other than stay inside.

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In Los Angeles, you have parks and libraries and movie theaters and museums right outside your door. You're in one of the world's Great Cities, where things happen.
He already said he wants to leave LA. Why are you trying to change his mind??

You should try to get out of CA once in a while to understand the appeal of different parts of the country so you don't come across as so oblivious. (BTW this is in response to your posts overall that seem to dismiss the entire rest of the country.)

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Old 08-22-2016, 04:43 PM
 
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Depends on where you live, NY and here it's upper middle class, not rich like most who live here think.
Yes, 200k would be in the top end of the range of upper middle class. However, upper middle class is not the same as middle class.

Sociologists Dennis Gilbert, Willam Thompson and Joseph Hickey estimate the upper middle class to constitute roughly 15% of the population.


Typical professions for this class include lawyers, physicians, psychologists, certified public accountants, pharmacists, optometrists, stockbrokers, dentists, engineers, professors, architects, school principals, urban planners, civil service executives and civilian contractors

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_middle_class



I'm not sure what you mean by rich as that is not a defined term.
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