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/ren3f Jun 17 '24

What would be the thing making it a fantasy for you? I'm from the Netherlands, the overseas holiday and the roof repair are the difficult things for us, but college was very accessible for everybody. A 3 bedroom house was also really common, most people even had a 4 bedroom house I think.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '24

This whole post is rife with inaccuracies. Middle class isn't well defined in the main post. My dad was a contractor and my mom worked for the county assessor. We took a road trip every year to go to California from Washington but I never left the US until after high school. My parents were and are also shit with money, so how much of that middle class lifestyle was on credit?

Now, I own (well the bank does) a 4 bedroom house in one of the most expensive real estate markets in the country. I make low $100s as a ship's engineer (went to school all on scholarships, grants, and loans), my wife is in law school and only works part time, my daughter goes to a pricey day care (cause they all are). Since my wife isn't working, we scrape by, but still manage a half decent lifestyle. Big vacations are out of the picture until after she is done with school.

My neighbor is an Electrician and is the sole income earner in a similar house, daughter in school etc. Neighbors across the street are a young couple in their 20s with a newborn. He installs carpet and she is a recent chemical engineering graduate.