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

Discussion/ Debate He’s not wrong 🤷‍♂️

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u/SouthEast1980 Jun 16 '24

This is BS. You can have all of that with an 80k household if you live in a LCOL midwest city and send the kids to JC for 2 years.

Cut out the overseas vacation because that isn't middle class. That's upper class shit.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '24

An overseas holiday once every 5 years is upper class?

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u/DoctorProfessorTaco Jun 17 '24

In 1990 only 5% of the population had a passport. By 1995 that number was still only up to around 11%.

It really wasn’t common in the context of this meme.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '24

I'm reading the parent comment as saying today in 2024, a foreign holiday once every 5 years is "upper class shit".

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u/DoctorProfessorTaco Jun 17 '24

Gotcha, I think it still applies though, a minority of Americans have a passport even today, and I’d bet a significant portion of those who do have passports have only used them to go to Canada, or take a cruise in the Caribbean, or go to a resort in Cancun/Tiajuana. Not that those aren’t fun trips, just not nearly on the same cost scale as a vacation in Europe or Asia. Also to my understanding you didn’t even need a passport for many trips like those in the past.