I wrote an article trying to define middle class/rich/poor here. It seems to me that you're barely middle class because you've got most things in green in the Middle Class column and also spend money on travel (sometimes it's your choice, but for your children to travel back/forth between NZ/Australia, it's forced). I applaud your twelve year old car! If a family member hadn't sold off an old early 2000s model year car without telling me that I'd earlier sold him, I'd have taken that back and not have a more modern car that I can thankfully afford. But that old car was awesome!