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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve always thought I had a funny view on class bc I was born to upper class parents who had lost all the money. So we went through vvv dry periods and could 1000% not keep up with the Jones’s, but the “class” part of it was super influential. Some of it was attitude, some of it was privledge.

Privilege part—we always vacationed for the summer in a house I bring my kids to now on the New England coast. It was my great grandparents place.

My parents only sent us to private schools and jumped through hoops to get us on scholarships. It was a forgone conclusion we would go to private, to the ones they went to.

On the other hand, our cars broke down all the time. We didn’t have a nice house. They worried legitimately about money a lot.

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What is your stance on all this as an adult? Will you forego what they did to send kids to private, etc? To me, private is a luxury I would consider once all college and retirement savings are set (which isn’t the case). I wouldn’t want to end up not having enough for college because we spent on private school. I know you said you got scholarships but our incomes aren’t low enough for that. I also don’t want my kids to be the poorest in a rich school. [/quote]

to afford private school boomers would just have the stay at home wife work nights, now days us millennials and genz have to work 4 jobs to make anywhere near that. boomers caused the demise of the middle class.[/quote]

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