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[quote=Anonymous]My husband's family is what I would call "rich," but they are probably really something like upper middle class. Very expensive house and cars, boats, private planes (just a little one, not a jet)/helicopters, all kids college and grad school paid for out of pocket, very expensive vacations when they were growing up (e.g. skiing in Europe). But they are also really ignorant and tacky in a lot of ways, and yes his dad is very rude to waiter, etc., and these days they are definitely in the Trump camp.

I grew up I guess working class? Nurse and military, small house, no vacations, normal cars. But my family had a lot more emphasis on reading, watching quality movies, eating interesting food, etc.

Our different backgrounds have never caused a problem in our marriage except that his parents were probably mad that I didn't have money. I think my husband and I are on an even plane culturally/taste wise, maybe especially because we went to the same college. It does make a HUGE positive difference in my life that my husband doesn't have student loans, and that our kids' college is prob going to be paid for by his parents. Also, I think my husband learned a lot of valuable money management lessons from his parents that I did not learn. He has definitely taught me how to budget, invest, etc., whereas my parents had no sense of financial planning.[/quote]

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