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The rich versus poor thread got me curious.

Upper middle, I'm pretty sure. My parents were never very open about how much they made.

Re: What was your income level growing up?

(Anonymous) - 2014-08-02 22:24 (UTC) - Expand

Low, middle, then high and onward.

Re: What was your income level growing up?

(Anonymous) - 2014-08-02 22:38 (UTC) - Expand

What counts as what level anyway? I'm never quite sure.

Somewhere around middle-upper middle.

Went to k-9 at a school that was mostly lower middle and high school at a school that was somewhat upper class. Interesting change in environments.

I was middle class in a very poor enviroment. So Iit was sort of like being rich. I was also a biracial and very white passing girl in a mostly PoC enviroment.

Then we moved to an actual middle class area, and I discovered I was very much middle-to-lower class.

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Re: What was your income level growing up?

(Anonymous) - 2014-08-03 05:59 (UTC) - Expand

Working class. Lucked into an elementary school in an upper middle income area, though, due to districting (I was literally the last house on the border) and that gave me an immense head start in life that many of my fellow poors never got >>

My parents insist they're not rich, even though they live in a pretty nice place and have a lot of money to spend on frivolities. They're certainly not drinking out of gold-encrusted glasses, but I think they'd be pretty well off if they didn't have so many deadbeat relatives leeching off them.

(To be fair to them, I got into a good school based on test scores, so they were often the poorest parents in the room at PTO meetings. Some of those parents had salaries an order of magnitude higher than my father's, and two orders of magnitude higher than my mother's.)

I was quite well-off as a child, but that was mostly through my family's hard work. They were immigrants and started from scratch. My dad had a good job, so there's that. I went to a school with kids that were mostly above my class, and I was definitely aware of the difference, but my folks were basically well-off enough for us to go on holiday 1-2 times a year and to send me to schools that had a tuition fee.

I'm less well off now, though.

Edited 2014-08-02 22:24 (UTC)

upper middle

Army brat with enlisted parent, which means we didn't have any money, but were guaranteed healthcare and a roof over our heads.

Poor side of working-class.

I always thought we did okay, despite the summer we lived without a refrigerator for a couple months because ours died and we couldn't afford to replace it. I thought, well, you know, it's a big expense, it's no wonder we couldn't afford to replace it.

Wasn't until I was in my late teens and had some friends who were definitely UPPER middle class that I realized we were actually at the lower end of middle class. That, and my dad observing somewhere around that time that we'd actually have been bringing in more money if he got fired from his job and we lived on welfare.

Re: What was your income level growing up?

(Anonymous) - 2014-08-02 23:46 (UTC) - Expand

Middle to upper middle, I think? but cheap. My parents didn't like spending money.

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Re: What was your income level growing up?

(Anonymous) - 2014-08-03 05:22 (UTC) - Expand

Lower to middle class. We always had the basics when I was growing up, and more.

Upper middle to lower middle.

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Re: What was your income level growing up?

(Anonymous) - 2014-08-03 01:18 (UTC) - Expand

Lower end of middle class, I think. It wasn't until I left home that I realized how low. I grew up in a lumber town, so there wasn't really much of a middle class. There were a few very wealthy families, lots of blue collar folks, and then on down the social strata. We straddled the blue collar-trailer park line for a long time. I was expected to contribute part of my after school income to the household.

For the first 8 years of my life I moved 38 times due to the fact that my mother didn't pay rent, so we did not have a lot of money, mostly due to my mothers spending habits, but also because my mother didn't work.

Then I lived at my fathers house for some years, which was pretty much working class, tho I was treated like we were a lot poorer than that by my step mother. (my dad is a long distance truck driver and my step mother a primary teacher) But house wise we had what everyone else around me did, so nothing was really missing in my life that way.

Then foster homes, the first one was (low) working class (single mother, interning and being paid by the CPS), then childrens home which works like a middle class home I guess, then a new set of foster parents who are middle classish (My foster father was employed full time by the CPS, but was originally a ships electrician to be a foster father and my foster mother worked for the state).

Upper middle.

My mom was a college prof and my dad taught Jr. high.

We lived very frugally when I was living at home, and when I first left home, I resented my parents for what I saw as their cheapness. I've come to feel somewhat differently as time as passed. I think there's a kind of cheapness that is just masochistic and rude and there's a kind of miserliness that is off-putting and sometimes they engaged in this kind of behavior. I can see now that in addition to that my parents were also able to pay off their house super early and not take out loans for new vehicles and etc which I deeply admire.

Ever since my brother and I left home, my parents have loosened up and they are using their money to enjoy themselves which makes me very, very happy for them.

Lower class.

I'm doing fairly well for myself at the moment, but I'm surprised by all the ways our in and out poverty affected things it shouldn't have. Like, popular culture? We didn't have cable or TV or anything for a long time, so I never watched any children's shows until I was almost a teenager. When we did get a TV, the movies we watched came from the dollar bin or were recorded from my grandpa's house, so my childhood had movies like Freddie the Frog and Rock-a-doodle (relative unknowns to all my friends now) instead of Disney movies.

Below the poverty level.

Middle class. Lived in a bungalow house in a nice neighborhood in the city. It wasn't the best part as the bad part wasn't too far away. I had a fair amount of toys. I got an allowance each week as an adolescent. Enough to go out to the mall and see a movie with friends, who were also in the same income level or above. I didn't always get the best or newest thing, but I was able to get the one thing I really wanted at least once a year on my birthday or Christmas. We went to Disney World once. Went outside the city to go camping in the summer, but didn't travel extensively. I'd say we were fairly average.

Hovering around the poverty line until I was in my early teens, then a jump up to middle class. The difference in spending habits and concept of necessity vs luxury between my sister and I and our younger half-siblings is astonishing sometimes.

I'd say middle-middle class. Dad had his own small business and Mom ran it and I thought I grew up on the lower end of middle class, but I just grew up in a rich neighborhood and didn't realize how lucky I was until I moved out for college. My parents took us on vacations and we never wanted for anything significant (sure, our vacations were usually pretty simple, but we always went somewhere and we were never, ever hungry, bills were paid, went to public school)

Upper middle class. We had more than enough money, went to theater, traveled on a regular basis, even had a summer house at the beach. (really beach town). We even went to private school for at least part of our schooling (I went less than my sister because I needed the support services that Catholic schools didn't have in those days.)

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