You either sign up to middle-class values and aspirations, or, let's face it, sooner or later, you're screwed.
The vast majority of Lakeview residents are happy to welcome people of every color to the neighborhood, but there is definitely a caveat: make yourself at home, as long as you live up to middle-class standards -- be polite, be fairly quiet, and don't gather on sidewalks, in alleys, or on streets.
Marty's triumph is to lift his family up to middle-class status.
Dominic Cooke, when he took over the Royal Court in 2007, promised plays that would hold a mirror up to middle-class dilemmas and reflect "the crisis in Britain in liberalism".
This was a pre-recession throw-away job, a job that was to be one of many prescribed jobs up the ladder to middle class comfort.
"The rich don't care, the poor can't do anything, so it's up to the middle class to make the change," Mr. Khwaja said, as a group of friends standing near him nodded in agreement.
However, the government's next challenge is to help the lower income group to move up to the middle class, the bank says.
"You need jobs that can allow people to migrate up to the middle class," he said.
It was the perfect game for a roaring economy, a financial market that was beginning to open itself up to the middle class, and a system which had always thrived by tolerating a bit of fraud to add liquidity.
From the millions who will lose health coverage or see their premiums go up, to the middle class families who will see their tax bill increase, to the pristine region of Alaska that will open to drilling, it's hard to overstate the cruelty of the Trump-Republican bill.
