http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/06/24/world.wealth.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
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June 25, 2008 7:25 a.m. John Brown SuperDork
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June 25, 2008 7:59 a.m. John Brown SuperDork
add a couple more to the list:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/25/us/25everglades.html?ref=science
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June 25, 2008 8:34 a.m. jwdmotorsports New Reader
And yet I'm not one of them.
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June 25, 2008 10:20 a.m. WilD New Reader
Dang, I need to jump on that bandwagon. I was talking to my wife the other night about how dissapointed I was that I could not buy a new Alfa 8C (not even close, I could scarcely afford a rusty '87 Milano at this point, lol) and that we needed to push our income much higher. She rolled her eyes at me.
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June 25, 2008 10:20 a.m. aussiesmg HalfDork
Me either dammit
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June 25, 2008 10:46 a.m. seann New Reader
Not really planning on being one of them.
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June 25, 2008 11:03 a.m. ignorant SuperDork
dosen't take much to be a millionaire anymore. With houses in the northeast now costing $500,000 or so for a nothing super special.
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June 25, 2008 11:09 a.m. doitover New Reader
Owing $550K on a home worth $500K doesn't make one a millionaire. :)
ignorant wrote: dosen't take much to be a millionaire anymore. With houses in the northeast now costing $500,000 or so for a nothing super special.
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June 25, 2008 11:17 a.m. Apexcarver New Reader
semi expensive house + retirement fund + cars + high end electronics (ect)
its not that hard to be there these days.
what with inflation being what it is.
a million dollars dosent buy much anymore really.
i think i read somewhere that a middle class family would need in excess of a mil to retire comfortably at a reasonable age.
$500k house + $80k corvette (example) + $40k wikes car + savings to put kids through college + retirement fund..
thats an upper middle class example in many areas... (what do houses in cali cost?) and its not that large of a stretch.
how many soccer moms do you see driving hummer H2's? (the alarming thing is porobly how few people own their cars outright)
im just saying that being a millionaire isnt that impressive and elite anymore.. (its having those things and not owing the bank both your testes thats unusual, but as i said, not that terribly out there)
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June 25, 2008 11:17 a.m. jwdmotorsports New Reader
The article stated that "Home values were not included in asset totals." anyway.
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June 25, 2008 11:19 a.m. jwdmotorsports New Reader
I'm a multi-thousandaire.
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June 25, 2008 12:08 p.m. wlkelley3 Reader
I must be a multi-hundredaire then.
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June 25, 2008 12:13 p.m. John Brown SuperDork
two dollars.... I want my TWO DOLLARS!
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June 25, 2008 12:41 p.m. AngryCorvair HalfDork
the amount i have in retirement savings is a little less than what i owe on my house, and i live from day to day on short-term funds, so i guess i'm in pretty bad shape. but that's right now. the amount in my retirement fund continues to grow, and the principal on my house continues to shrink (although not as quickly as its FMV,
), so someday, in theory, i'll be wealthy. i'll probably die right around then.
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June 25, 2008 1:16 p.m. John Brown SuperDork
You may need a hand offloading all of them assets... just don't look to me.
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June 25, 2008 1:20 p.m. Salanis Dork
I'm at least a multi-aire.
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June 25, 2008 1:57 p.m. mel_horn HalfDork
I'm an E-30-aire...
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June 25, 2008 3:09 p.m. Osterkraut New Reader
"If you're single, and you die in debt...
You win!"
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June 27, 2008 12:41 p.m. CivicSiRacer New Reader
Does this mean I'm a multi-children-aire with 3 kids? :) How much do kids go for on the open market now? I think I could be a millionaire if I sell them :)
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June 27, 2008 1:38 p.m. jwdmotorsports New Reader
CivicSiRacer wrote: Does this mean I'm a multi-children-aire with 3 kids? :) How much do kids go for on the open market now? I think I could be a millionaire if I sell them :)
I think that just makes you broke.
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June 27, 2008 2:12 p.m. Duke Dork
I'm a dollar-menunaire.
