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[quote=Anonymous]I grew up in a wealthy family. Maybe not true “old money” but definitely 1% and there was wealth back to my great-grandparents and it was increased each generation, but my family was also very connected to the government. 
We traveled to Europe every year or so, and did other trips (central/South America, Asia, Hawaii, etc) less often but still a number of times as a kid. We did multi-generation trips with my grandmother and uncle & aunt pretty often. We didn’t “summer” anywhere per se, but had homes in Aspen, California and a NYC apartment in addition to our primary home in DC. We’d spend a week or so skiing most winters, and a few summer weeks in both CO and CA, NY for lots of weekends for museums, shopping and shows. 
 I never really talked about travel with my peers, but I knew our family did more than many. In college I took a course where we were all asked to share our family’s ses and I learned that other people got extremely hostile if I said I was “upper class” (that was one of the options). They didn’t believe anyone was really above “umc” unless they were a Trump or a Russian oligarch. It was pretty interesting. [/quote]

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