Lower middle class, Working class, Upper middle class etc? Wealthy?
Just curious about us.
Grew up lower middle class. My dad was a Manager at an airport and my mom was a lower white collar worker
Everyone thinks they are middle class. Everyone on this forum already knows the middle class terminology was designed to eliminate class consciousness but this rhetoric has had such incredible effectiveness that it's basically pointless to ask the question without strictly defining your terms.
That's kind of why I specified the American burger perception of class. Obviously leftists know in the end it's bullshit, you're very right.
Yeah I get it. All I will say is if you don't feel comfortable sharing, please don't.
I think the term is lower middle class. My dad was a precariously employed academic who had long periods of unemployment while my mum had a fairly normal job in the healthcare sector. We were not poor but we were noticeably less rich than other families. It's a kind of fucked place to be as you're culturally alienated from the working class and economically unable to take part in the middle class proper.
Exactly... We had food on the table and we got some fun luxury stuff, but some of the kids i went to school with (who's parents were almost always high powered attorneys or drs or business owners) got brand new F150 trucks to drive to school from said parents.
We also took vacations, but never anywhere exotic while the kids I talked about above were able to go to Europe and other places.
Kids I knew went on vacations to Florida and the Caribbean, but no one ever went to Europe. We took our first non-family-related vacation when I was 19, and only because my mom got fired illegally and managed to win her lawsuit.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Hills,_Kansas
Fwiw this neighborhood was a feeder into my particular school district, so these are the kids im talking about.
Im a creature of the suburbs yeah, but nothing like the above neighborhood. Not even close.
Would relate more to you than to someone's who's parents who were Doctors or lawyers.
Lower working class. I don't want to go into detail why.
Grew up super poor. Single mom, section 8 housing, foodstamps, all that. The only reason I escaped my home town was because one of my mom's ex boyfriends moved us to a bigger city for his job. Otherwise, I probably would've ended up like the other kids in my hometown - overdosing or military.
We were poor. Both parents had precarious work and had to live in my grandparents garage for a few years along with toddler me and my older sister. Then my dad lucked out and got a low level job at a community college (he was a worker not an academic, to be clear). And we started becoming a little more like the regular "middle class." The bullshit "American dream" worked just a little bit for my parents (though it was largely due to luck which tends to run out). My mom was able to go back to school but died soon after getting her Masters degree.
Unfortunately I'm now worse off than they ever were even in their toughest times.
I'm very sorry, just know I and we love you comerade. No matter what, you're my fellow human being
Thanks, I appreciate it. This place does make the horrible bitterness of hellworld feel a little bit less lonely.
My family bounced between poor and upper middle class. There were times where we were couch crashing with my grandparents on food stamps and my dad was homeless for about 6 years and there were times where we got to travel and go to summer camp.
wrt to wages in my country, my parents are in like top 3% (upper middle class ig) but wrt first world like bottom 20%. inequality is weird.
Wealthy. You sort of have to be to send your kid overseas for High School. Father was a CEO of some low-tier firm, and Mother was a medical worker.
I'm a gusano. Like, no shit... It would be hard to be more gusano than me.
Grew up in a working class family in one of the poorest communities in Northern Europe.
My parents owned their own home only by virtue of buying the already cheap house during a housing price crash.
Parents didn't go to college. Nicest car we owned growing up was a Kia. Ate a lot of top ramen. Malcolm in the middle looking house in a suburb 60 miles from Dad's work
Sounds like somewhere on the line of lower middle class. Malcolm in the middle is basically a comedy show about lower middle class life in general.
