It’s not impossible that a household is pulling this, but you are also talking about 2 potentially highly educated and highly employable people able to make 100-125k each to make those numbers.

That’s what I was referring to by “household income”.

And I live in SF. I make that amount. And like I said, until recently I was quite poor.

It’s night and day the difference. Upper middle class lifestyle is nowhere near working poor lifestyle. Not even in the same ballpark. I’m going to be able to retire in my mid 60s. If I had kids, I could put them through college. I will probably be able to buy a house at some point. These are all achievable dreams for me which are NOT for the average working class person. And most of these middle class people were BORN with those options.

Equating those two classes is just not rational, except in the very specific circumstance of both being opposed to the truly rich.