[Crawford]

Yeah, the ultrawealthy usually have higher quality design, but $2 million+ homes in exurban Detroit aren't for the upper middle class, they're for the wealthy. You have to be in the 1% to afford such homes.

Of course the .1% with homes near Central Park, Jackson Hole, Santa Barbara, etc. are in another class. But your chief of surgery at a random metroplitan hospital in the heartland is more likely to live in some tacky neo-Tuscan megamansion in on an exurban cul-de-sac.

Irvine, yeah, I'd call more upper middle class, but Irvine doesn't really have McMansions, it's more typical Southern CA sprawl. Of course it's expensive but that's because it's in the best part of OC, Asians love it and the schools are great.