Answers anonymous were your parents wealthy rich?
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Nope. We were barely middle class. My dad was a surveyor with the State of California for many years. It was a respectable job but he didn’t make big money. My mom was rich while she was growing up but didn’t have money of her own; she did freelance writing for newspapers and magazines but didn’t make a lot of money from it.
I would say we were comfortable. We lived in a nice apartment, we had enough food and clothes, we had a nice car. We didn’t have a lot of extra money though, we didn’t have a color TV until I was a sophomore in high school. We finally got cable TV when I was a senior in high school. Money was tight though. My parents got divorced when I was 25 and I was happy for both of them that when they both remarried they married people who had money.
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Not at first but they have a good retirement I think money wise
Both did well in their careers
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Not at all.
While we didn’t live hand to mouth, we couldn’t afford expensive clothes or food or trips either.
Even though I only work part-time, I now make more than their pensions combined.
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I don’t want tell the world what my parents do for jobs. Their divorced and are both nearing retirement. Not rich though.
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I grew up poor. Section 8, food stamps, no car, no dentist, no medical. I live way better now, I live in a house, have a car. Good things.
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I started my life poor. At 14, my mom got a rich boyfriend (and later, husband) and we moved into his mansion.
However, he made it clear he was not my dad. I was not allowed to be in most of the house, I couldn’t use the telephone (it was before cell phones), and I couldn’t watch tv
I was allowed in my bedroom, part of the basement, and my bathroom.
Interestingly, starting about 10 years ago, we started getting along really well and he’s very good to me now. I’m not in his will but that’s ok.
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sounds pretty â– â– â– â– â– â– up for him to restrict your privileges in a house he invited you too
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My parents are extremely well off and I tell them to enjoy every minute of it because they worked hard for it.
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Yeah @JFlame . From 14 on I had to have a job and pay rent. It was $400/month.
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My mom was a single mom so we weren’t rich but we never got free lunches at school but I was very sick (got ar kids for free part of Medicaid in Arkansas because the medical expenses were so expensive) we were comfortable but never rich… nowadays mom does well money wise. As a kid I never lived in an apartment and we never moved my mom was a single mom of two and taking care of one that wasn’t her’s (brother’s girlfriend) my father paid about $200 for both my brother and myself and even back then $200 with two growing kids wasn’t much according to my mom
Mom paid the mortgage and ended up owning the house but once my stepdad and her had moved in together after a while moved out of the old house and into my stepdad’s house and it was nicer mom eventually sold my childhood home
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we was living at worst of the worst ghetto of izmir.yeĹźilyurt(greenhome).but people had good intention and naive.nowadays its route for immigrants for going europe or drug dealers.but i m lucky to get out of at that garbage
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My dad was in a five hundred fortune business. My mom married a millionaire. Ocea shut his factory down. He died a Poor man. My mom however divorced the millionaire. And?
Got nothing. She married the trash man. In celebra Her fiftieth Wedding anniversary. Internet assets are less than a man. I farmed for the first twenty 42 thirty years. Lost all my assets to my relatives. Now i’m dirt poor.
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My parents weren’t one of the 1% , but my father’s salary was quite a lot higher than average. His pension just before he passed away around $70-75k a year. Neither of my parents came from a posh and wealthy background , but they were far smarter than the average person. They divorced in 1983. My father did well for himself, but my mother settled for a job way below her capabilities. She was a problem drinker/alcoholic , and the problems stemming from that ramped up a lot after she retired.
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Nope ..we were poor.
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My parents started from scratch now well settled.
I want to be like them. May be one day I will.
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My parents were poor when we first arrived to the States.
My father worked very hard and climbed the corporate ladder rather quickly
We ended up being upper middle class in the end
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My parents were fairly poor. My dad was military and my mom worked wherever she could. We lived on base housing and got reduced school lunches. After my dad retired from the military he worked for a city, and my mom became a security specialist…now they’re retired and not rich but their pensions make them comfortable enough to afford their mortgage and live okay. They’re much better off than when i was a kid.
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My mom did okay as a nurse and single parent until she went blind while I was young, and then she was on welfare for most of the rest of my childhood despite getting a master’s in social work. No employers want a blind person – too expensive – that wasn’t on her, she did try her best to get into the workface again. I always respected that she never gave up there.
So, yeah, a lot of poverty and food insecurity in my childhood.
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My father was a police officer, and my mom was a housewife, as they were called then–and being a stay-at-home mom is a job.
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