[lazybreather]

Lower middle class kid to now a slightly upper middle class person here. Migrated from small towns to cities. I think this falls into majority category.

Wow! I don't experience even one of those points the author mentions. In fact quite the opposite. It is unsettling to feel even mildly rich or show the world that I am doing well. Maybe I am not in the majority after all. Or the article is so very rooted in western demography.

[sanderjd]

Yes. This is my experience as well. I don't really relate to any of this status seeking through wealth stuff.

I'm curious where you're from. I'm from a small town in the midwest. I live in a cosmopolitan urban area now, but I always wonder if this sort of thing is a coastal or city culture that I still don't, and maybe never will, understand.