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⌈ Secret Post #2917 ⌋

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

[(Anonymous)]

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.