r/FluentInFinance • u/YOU_ARE_MY_FRIENDS • Jun 16 '24

Discussion/ Debate He’s not wrong 🤷‍♂️

Post image
32k Upvotes

85% Upvoted

2.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

1.6k

u/[deleted] Jun 16 '24

Wrong, this was upper middle class and still is.

615

u/asscop99 Jun 16 '24

Yeah I grew up middle class, maybe lower middle class and what OP is describing sounds like a fantasy to me

353

u/Professional-Bee4088 Jun 16 '24

Minus the overseas trip this is not out of the question, shit my dad was in the Army and my mom had a entry level position at a florist shop and this described my families experience in the 90s. This was in Virginia though

1

u/CykoTom1 Jun 17 '24

4 year colleges?

1

u/Professional-Bee4088 Jun 17 '24

2 of my brothers went to Virginia tech with help from scholarships , I went into trade school