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>It affords a very nice quality of life but you're certainly not living the lifestyle that most people think of as "rich."

I think maybe you're missing the perspectives of ...almost everyone outside of a very select few in VHCOL locations.

That's the average? There's no way to measure it, but that's around five times the US median household income, at a percentile of 97%. It could not be close to the median for HN just by probability, and it's a rich man's income.

I never said average. I said it's a fairly common household income on HN– which is true.

It’s the other way around. Most people think of it as rich.

Tech workers in SF don’t.