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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm going to go on a limb and add a mildly controversial thing.  In addition to all the "things" in this thread, in my humble opinion, you cannot really comfortably belong to the UMC unless your family, ideally in two generations before you (so your parents and grandparents) were also UMC.   It's great having UMC-level money and UMC-level jobs.  But growing up with these things also gives you habits and assumptions and mannerisms that are frankly very hard to teach.  They are hard to articulate even for people who grew up with them, that's how unspoken/DNA-level they are.  [/quote]

I somewhat agree.  I grew up LMC.  My DH and I now have a fairly high net worth, mostly from saving our above average incomes.  We can afford a bigger home, more expensive vacations, new cars, etc., but we live in our paid off modest home and usually just rent a house near the water in the summer for a vacation.  It is really hard for us to spend money on big splurges.  We did take a trip to the Caribbean, but that was hard to me to get my head around that.  It just felt like something "I" don't do, if that makes sense.   We do let our DD participate in whatever activity floats her boat and she goes to several overnight camps.  She can also pick whatever college she wants to go to.  Her view on the world will be much different than mine.  It's hard to shake your upbringing.[/quote]

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