[TrumpetteNJ]

“What exactly do they mean by living “comfortably”?”

Each kid gets their own room. Family eats out once a week and takes a Disney trip once a year. In other words, a life style no middle-class family had.

In the 1950’s Levit build enormous sub-divisions with 3 bedroom 1 bathroom homes. Living in these homes was considered a middle-class life style.

Expectations out-weigh reality now-a-days for young people.
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[Svartalfiar]

Each kid gets their own room. Family eats out once a week and takes a Disney trip once a year. In other words, a life style no middle-class family had.

That's not "living comfortably", that's living normally. We do all that (minus the Disney, but we do other family trips), have an extra bedroom (though kid three will take that in a couple years), and we survive just fine on less than $100M. Living comfortably to require another $77M, means we'd be eating out at half-fancy places more than half the week, go on multiple trips, buy whatever toys for the kids and mom n' dad, have relatively brand new vehicles each, go to the bar every weekend, etc etc.