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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It seems to me that it can boil down to a level of education and intellectual curiousity.  I wouldn't mind being being married to someone with a blue-collar job, but I would mind being married to someone who wasn't interested in history or politics or art.

The snobbery doesn't always run one way.  As noted by some pps, many blue-collar types exhibit a type of "reverse snobbery."  It would bother me if my significant other belittled things that I find interesting or otherwise care about, simply because he finds them to be "snobbish" or elitist.  [/quote]

This.

DH and I come from similar SES but the other differences are big. Both families are warm, wonderful people but extremely different and we reflect that. I like old houses, he likes new. He likes the predictability of chain restaurants, I can't stand them. I want to take the kids to Europe, he wants to take them to Disneyworld.  So I'm not sure it has so much to do with money per se, but taste, experiences and interests. I pick my battles and hope that my kids will appreciate fine food, travel, history, art and architecture some day. DH is a good person and we're good for each other so these things don't matter in the big scheme of things, IMHO. I won the education battle and that's what matters most to me, the rest I can work with.

And  :lol:  about pilots falling under blue collar here. Only on DCUM.  Most pilots have engineering degrees and many have Masters degrees as well. [/quote]

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