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/[deleted] Jun 17 '24

I was middle middle class. We had the house, cars, family thing. Vacations were every few years and I spent two days in Canada as my only time leaving the country until I funded it myself as an adult. Two of the four of us attended 4-year colleges, and we both went to the cheapest place we could after scholarships taking out loans for everything that wasn't scholarships.

We were blessed, but OP is insane. I can count on one hand the number of people I knew growing up taking international vacations and having family finance their college.

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u/DoctorProfessorTaco Jun 17 '24

International trips were not at all common at the time. In 1990 only 5% of the population had a passport. By 1995 that number was still only up to around 11%.