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Just doesn't compute. We live in what the author would call a high income neighbourhood but that's because we wanted to live walking/bike distance to everything, which turns out to be a pretty frugal way to live. We have an old beater for a car and have never had any intention of trying to keep up with the rest of the street/neighbourhood. We see a lot of fancy around the place but meh.

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Exactly. High income neighborhoods aren't just randomly scattered around. While I have no interest in living in a high income neighborhood per se, I want to bike to work, be away from major highways, have green spaces around my house, feel reasonably safe and be reasonably close to an at least a half way decent school and all places that fulfill those criteria are almost by definition high income neighborhoods.

I think that's part of the key, if you're going to try to outshine your neighbors you're only wasting money for a momentary victory. I had an uncle who told me he was glad he moved from the neighborhood he was in for that very reason.

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