re: Middle class

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but I also think the expectations of a middle-class lifestyle are far more extravagant than they were 30-40+ years ago.

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Way way more.

People are unrealistic.

I grew up fairly poor, but our neighborhood was working/middle class. Superintendent of schools lived there, city engineer, truck drivers...as did all classes of people. It was very different than today. The wealthiest subdivision then would be loathed today, as the houses were small and not ostentatious.

Everyone worked on their own cars, regardless of lot in life, and all the kids played together. It was a very different time with faaar more realistic and ideal expectations.

The yuppie movement in the 80s destroyed those types of neighborhoods.