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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up poor. My parents were poor immigrants. Dh is also a child of poor immigrants. We both studied hard, worked hard and now have a seven figure income and live in an affluent neighborhood. Many of our close friends are from when we were younger and starting out. They are all professionals but we earn more than all our friends.

While we socialize with new people, I personally like our old friends much better. I don’t know if it is just harder to make good friends when you get older or I just feel comfortable with people with less money.

If you grew up poor and now have money, do you hang out with the same friends?

Do you just pay for everything for your friends who have less money?

I like to travel. This is where I’m seeing the biggest discrepancy in lifestyle. Some old friends can’t or won’t book a trip when flight prices are too high (&gt;$500). I would like to go on this trip with them. Should we just offer to pay for the whole thing? We have close friends who were in our wedding. We want to go away with them and they can’t go because flights will cost $4000 for their family. I think they wanted to spend $2000 or less on flights. Same with hotel. I strongly prefer to stay somewhere nicer. Should we just pay for the whole trip? [/quote]

Curious were your parents poor but educated immigrants or day laborers?  How did you become so successful? Surgeons?[/quote]

Both sets of parents were very well educated in their home countries. My parents grew up during war. [/quote]

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