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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My family doesn’t have this level of wealth, but it wouldn’t surprise me if my parents have over $10 million in their estate. My siblings and I each have a few million if you include homes (they own, I do not), bank and retirement accounts ec. One sibling was married to someone who grew up with very little. They eventually divorced and now both siblings are married to people whose parents are also quite wealthy. By contrast, [b]my husband grew up totally comfortable by[/b] [b]most standards (upper middle class)[/b] but differently than us. I spent summers with my stay at home mom at our beach house taking lessons at the yacht club and tennis club. I want to private schools and my parents paid for college. He’d rarely flown and [b]was on a Pell Gran[/b]t in college (where we met). We’ve been together 25 years and have kids and yet I feel like my family (whom we rarely see these days) kind of manages to tolerate him. I don’t know that it would be different if he’d come from more money but I do wonder. All that said, it’s definitely easier to have money than to not, obviously. [/quote]

People who are upper middle class don't get Pell grants![/quote]

Sorry to digress from thread, but responding ti say that’s what I always thought (I’m the pp who wrote this) but he used to get upset when I suggested they were anything other than that and I didn’t really know. He always has expressed surprise that his family fell in the bottom 20% of income at our college (about how many received Pell grants). I was poking around. Today his mom’s job would pay about $150k (she still works) and his dad’s job would pay about $60k (he lost his job many years ago / ended up retiring early) and houses near them with the same number of bedrooms sell for about $250k. His parents were previously military / had their education paid for via the military and by the time DH went to college they were in their post-military careers. There were a few younger siblings at home, so I assume that played a factor. [/quote]

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