Living Modestly

I just read an article about a person who said that her family was "living modestly." They had a house that was 1756 sqft with three bedrooms and two baths. They had three cars, one of which was a minivan. She considers herself a "victim of the war on the middle class" because she lost her job and had to take one that paid "a third less."

My parents raised four kids in a house that was 600 sqft, three bedrooms and one bath, and we never had more than one car. We were considered pretty comfortable because there were two bedrooms for the kids, and the car was less than five years old.