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Originally Posted by Sarn
just in the US middle class 80% in Russia 7%.
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We and Americans have a little bit different view that middle class is. Let's look at some regular Russian engineer who has apartments in the city, a car and a dacha. A typical person, right? Which class this person should be associated with? Now look at some typical Homer Simpson. He is also an engineer, who spends 90% of his salary on Obamacare, mortgage of a cardboard house he lives in (he even doesn't own it), taxes, utility bills etc. In result he has almost no cash in his pocket. He even has no dacha (according to Wikipedia 50% of Soviet families had a second house called dacha). Is he a middle class?
As about comparison of trailer parks and Khrushchyovkas, you are totally wrong, because these are a way different places to live. Just compare the prices. You can buy a trailer for
less than $5000 USD (I did pat that money only to rent a car for a few weeks). Can you buy even some smallest one-room apartments in Khrushchyovka in the most shittiest outskirts of the country for such a price? Course you can't. So it's like to compare a bicycle with a plane. I saw a lot of trailer parks as well as single-storey cardboard houses which can be broken with a finger when I was to the States, so I know what I'm talking about. A cheap-ass ugly Khrushchyovka is a royal palace in comparison to those.