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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's interesting to me all the posters who are saying class mobility does not exist. My H and I both grew up LMC. We're first generation college graduates. Now I have a PhD and he is in finance. Senior manager at his firm, very likely to advance. He makes &gt;750k. I adjunct right now for the flexibility with our kids (I'm basically a SAHM for all intents and purposes - I only teach one or two courses a year to keep my toe in. It's basically a hobby job).

Anyway, my point is, we've still been invited to join the fancy country club, our kids go to an expensive private school, we vacation several times a year in the same spots as all the other parents (Caribbean, skiing, Europe, beach trip every year). I've never once felt slighted or looked down upon. Maybe our background is not obvious to others? We're mid thirties and went to good schools on scholarship/loans which we've since long paid off.

I don't get the people who are saying this ^ is not an example of class mobility.[/quote]

You're white right? Feeling like you automatically fit in because you're white and have a lot of money is a privilege most brown people don't get to experience.[/quote]

Also I suspect they grew up LMC but in an urban area, maybe even benefited from magnet school or private school financial aid? But even someone from Franconia living in an apartment will be way more capable of adopting Gentry/Elite mannerism. There L1/G4 from rural hinterland had a harder timer. That her DH knew to focus on finance and how's to advance there is telling; if you don't know to do (asked can afford to) summer internship at banks and get in right out of the college recruitment circuit you won't make it. [/quote]

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