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if you have some

Some of them are, some of them aren't

They think they are. But they don't know that I have a giant savings account for emergencies and no student loans to pay.

Haaaaaaaaaah this was me until I had to own up to it because I'm considering buying property.

+1

I went through college purely on scholarships and got a job straight out of school. I may not be wealthy, but I'm significantly better off than your average 23 year old.

no, most of my friends are from a public high school in a sorta poor district and my family's pretty well off

My friends are in a lot of different socioeconomic situations. But I would say that in terms of economic class, with maybe one or two exceptions, most of my friends come from a pretty similar middle class background. Same slice of middle class as well mostly.

Nope. I'm the only one who is broker than broke in the crowd. :-P And likely slated to lose my job, in the next round of cutbacks. So I will be even more broke than broker than broke.....

oh man, that is really awful anon. I hope you get a better job and things look up.

Not even close. Most of my friends are a lot less well off than I am, but there are quite a few that are levels of magnitude above my current financial status. It doesn't really bother me.

I don't tend to meet too many friends through irl social circles though, otherwise there would probably be less diversity there.

Depends on what you consider my position to be. I have everything I need and can buy a lot of frivolous stuff, but it's all on daddy's credit card; I'm technically broke. Most of my friends are simultaneously much poorer (they don't always have everything they need) and much richer (they can afford the things they do have on their own) than I am.

I don't have friends.

I really like the addition "if you have some". =)

Well a lot if my new friends are from my new job so it's pretty even - but we come from a wide varied background where some a like giant mansion people and others are uh just starting up.

Some lost jobs recently :( some gained. I think most of us are in the doing-okay-low-income bracket. The odd tight month.

There's one friend who's not doing so well and for the first time cannot lean off her patents* but we've been growing apart and I lack sympathy because she was such a dick when *i* had no money...(and they do have money they just keep being irresponsible with it which is why she in particular ain't got any)

*a luxury I never had but she'd make stupid comments telling me to borrow off my folks like she does then in the same breath whine about how ~poor~ she was cause she couldn't buy a fancy console and I was struggling to buy FOOD argh it made me so mad so I'm spitefully smug that she can feel some if that stress even tho she's got rent and shit covered and in 6 months she'll have her phd doctorship and making loads and buying their milliondoller house with the money the bank is willing to give them cause her boyfriend is a successful architect
Tldr happy friend who wasn't poor and shitty to be is having to tighten her wallet even though she's still medium income

"Friend". That I'm trying to distance from. Cause she's so mean and it's taken me 16 years and people pointing it out to realise this holy shit. :(

/rant

No, they were all way richer (and less 'white trash') than I was. Always made me a bit embarrassed to have them around my place.

Growing up they were pretty well all richer than me (I was working class, they were largely lower-middle and middle class, but I was in enrichment programs and shit so it was either I made non-working class friends or I didn't make any). Now that has changed in a lot of cases, I'm considerably better off than most. Some of that's bootstrappiness, some of it's choices, some of it's just dumb luck (one of my friends had a devastating illness right at the same time as his wife).

That said, it'll change back again when some of their parents die and leave them with literally millions.

Re: are your friends in a similar socioeconomic position as you?

(Anonymous) - 2014-12-29 06:28 (UTC) - Expand

Mostly. I have a few friends that started out upper middle but chose poorly (economically speaking) when going to college and are now lower than me, but most of us are middle class or lower class.

We are all mostly students and as such we all have the same money coming in each month. So in that case yes.

But only one of my friends belong to the same socioeconomic position as me, as we both grew up dirt poor. And it shows, we are both better at handling our finances than the rest of our friends. But we also have less "stuff" than what they have, as we don't have parents that can help us with money or buying anything really.

Also my friends who grew up middle class (and up) have savings accounts, I don't. Well I do, but that is only in case of emergency money that I have saved up myself, not money my parents saved for me growing up.

I am poorer than most of them, but most of them are just middle class while I'm lower-mid.

Yeah, we're all broke bitches. Can spot a sale from ten miles away.

Only a few. Most of my friends are better off than me.

It might just be my perception but it seems that most of those I know are better off than I am. I'm not slouching myself, but even my brother, who had a car repossessed a few short years ago, is shopping on another level than me these days.

Er, that's how I measure my socioeconomic position, btw. I can go to a major supermarket and fill my cart pretty full without looking at prices or keep a tally on a calculator (the way I did when I first started out) but my brother (and most of my friends) go to Costco and load up a small truck full of stuff and not blink at the total.

Re: are your friends in a similar socioeconomic position as you?

(Anonymous) - 2014-12-29 06:31 (UTC) - Expand

Re: are your friends in a similar socioeconomic position as you?

(Anonymous) - 2014-12-29 09:51 (UTC) - Expand

honestly, they're kinda all over the place. but I would say most are either roughly at the same level or somewhere lower (how much lower varies). And I'm saying this considering that my parents do very well, not what I'd call super rich but they have everything they need and then some, and I will not be living like that when I move out, but I still have a lot of privilege because of that background.

Edited 2014-12-29 05:45 (UTC)

Hm, I'd say my family is somewhat to significantly better off than most of our friends, and either slightly behind or equal to a few others.

A lot depends on what you take into account and use for comparison. Income-wise, for our area, we're somewhere in the vicinity of upper working class/lower middle class. We're both working, and rent a small trailer in a reasonably decent neighborhood at a very low cost. We have one child, no pets, a frugal lifestyle, and a moderate, fairly manageable debt load. We're both high school graduates and I have an associate's degree.

Some of our friends are unemployed and/or disabled (though not approved for disability) and effectively living in poverty, with much larger households to support, even though some of them are also far better-educated than us, with better resumes, and all of them own houses.

One friend owns his own business as well as his home, but he and his wife have more kids and pets than us, and he has often mentioned having financial difficulties (at least partly due to lifestyle excesses they can't seem to curb.) So on the whole I'm not sure I'd say they're way ahead of us despite their better educations, higher income and nicer accommodations.

One respect in which we are by far the best off of any of our group is health-wise. Though we have gone longer stretches uninsured than some of them, nearly every adult in all the other families has had massive health issues within the past few years, if not ongoing problems for much longer. Ours have been few, mild and not all that expensive to deal with or detrimental to our respective job performance. This of course has made consistently earning a living much easier for us.

Errr, yes and no? I have friends still in college and friends who are doctors so.....

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