Travel and social class

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Anonymous wrote:Couldn’t you tell someone’s social class just by where you met them, what they do, etc etc? I mean, to whom am I giving this test? And what would I do with the results?

Well in the book it’s a college student hearing that her new roommate grew up going to Christmas markets in Europe, skiing out west every spring break, and vacations on Sea Island every summer.

Tipped her off immediately to the roommate being from a high class family.

This could be rich person stuff - do they own the Sea Colony house? Do they fly first class to Europe and stay in the nicest hotels? Do they go to Aspen instead of slumming it at a less lux resort? - or it could be middle class if it is coach and rentals.

Skiing out west doesn’t have to be expensive. It really depends on where you go. And most middle class families can afford to rent a house for a beach vacation for a week or even two.

No no way is a middle class family going to Europe in Dec, skiiing in Colorado in March,

Military people throw this stuff out the window though. My husband grew up in a LMC family, but overseas due to the military- he's half American and half European. He grew up skiing the Alps, sailing through the Greek Isles, going to Spanish islands, taking tennis lessons at lakeside resorts in Germany, etc. We are rich now and I think it's in part bc he is very cultured, but he was solidly LMC growing up.