Reply #17: Gallo's father was a barber and an ex-cop.

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IIRC.

He was working class.

And I think of Sweet Home as working class/ lower middle class. Once they save a little money, people from Sweet Home move a little farther to the east, to Williamsville, or Clarence, and then they're more solidly middle and upper middle class. The most common biography of someone who moves out of Sweet Home: UB professor finally gets tenure, or former engineering grad student a couple years into career saves enough and moves.

I'd be surprised if the average (savings + equity in home, adjusted for the bubble which will pop) were much higher than $20K for longer term Sweet Home residents. I think of an adult who has less than a year's salary in savings as working for a living, and therefor, working class. I don't think of it so much as working in a factory.

(My cousins grew up in Buffalo.)