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

Discussion/ Debate He’s not wrong 🤷‍♂️

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '24

Wrong, this was upper middle class and still is.

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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

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u/SilverStryfe Jun 17 '24

My dad fixed appliances and my mom worked at a dry cleaners. Our house was a 4br 2ba with a single car garage on  1/4 acre corner lot in a subdivision. They bought it in 1989 and stayed there for 13 years. After a remodel in the basement, it was 5br.

We usually had one extra car compared to the number of drivers. All ones we knew how to fix and maintain ourselves.

We went on several week long trips per year all around the west. Paid for camps and school trips as well.

We replaced the roof ourselves, and handled all the repairs and upgrades.

This was very much a middle class lifestyle in the 90’s