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[quote=Anonymous]I'm curious - for folks who used to be UMC but are now poor and feel like reminiscing.

1) What's your background, and why aren't you fancy anymore?
2) What ways of fancy life do you hold onto as a poor person?
3) Anything else to add?

Mine:

1) I'm 4th generation of a medical family (pediatric heart surgeon, gynecologist, others) from Ukraine. When I was 10, uncle got sick with terminal cancer. He lived in the US. To be near uncle in his last months, our family abruptly sold our home for $20k in 1998, gave away the land, packed what we could carry in a few suitcases and moved to a dirty part of Brooklyn. Goodbye UMC life, hello poverty for years. I'm not fancy any more. I earn $60k/yr, and live modestly in Arlington.

2) My fancy poor person habits are: collecting a library for my children to inherit; spending far over budget on their education and mine; mostly food organic/heirloom/biodynamic on a budget.

3) My husband is also a poor fancy person. He's a manual laborer, dropped out of high school, no college. His family were a furniture factory owner, dentist, high-up feds.[/quote]

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