MRG
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I am grateful for many of my early childhood experiences, because I appreciate very much where I am now. I also realize how lucky I was, to be given many different chances in life. For instance, I hate to think of how my life might have turned out, if my relatives in PA did not get us 5 kids out of the orphanage in CA, when I was 11 years old. My DH and I have much more than we ever thought we would when we were first married. We are blessed.
Instead of a question about pick-up trucks, how about one about Priuses?
Agreed. Even when we first arrived and were technically considered living at poverty level and receiving welfare (Medicaid/CHIP), I never actually felt poor. We could afford the necessities and the government helped with healthcare. Even minimum wage was equivalent to 4 years' worth of my mom's salary as Math Department Head at her high school. Heck, we actually had centralized air conditioning and heated water at the apartment, something that I used to deem as purview of rich people.I lived in a bamboo hut in a third world country until I was twelve when my family immigrated to the US. Both my parents were professionals and they eventually reaped the benefit of being in the middle class community. Education was paramount in the family and it was the equalizer we needed to help us move out of the environment we were in.
So I guess I was outside of any bubble until fate brought us into the land of "milk and honey" for which we are eternally grateful.
I question "upper-middle-class" status, however. Maybe cf. to the rest of the country; but in the west where I'm at, I'm just your average Joe. A very grateful Joe, that is.
Lol, I had to Google what flyover state meant. I've lived in California since we moved to the US so I haven't really been to any of the other states bar a trip to Universal Orlando/Disney World.I got a 41. I'm a fifth-generation college graduate with several ancestors who floated over on a famous little wooden boat. It didn't strike me as particularly accurate, especially if you had spent most of your life in the state that is home to just over 10% of the US population. I know I got points for various periods where I lived in the flyovers. California is a big damn "bubble", but consider the source of the "test".
+1 I guess the same for me, got a 78: A lifelong resident of a working-class neighborhood with average television and movie going habits.I got a 70? Spent some time outside th US and in the military so might be a factor.