[dragonwriter]

> You have an interesting definition of "middle class" if you think middle class people can take on an extra 25 thousand dollar yearly expense.

Petit bourgeois people very often can.

If by “middle class” you mean “around median income”, which is mostly people firmly in the working class (a use of “middle class” invented to beutralize working class solidarity rather than reflecting any real class distinction), then, well, no, they probably can't.