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In reply to the discussion: What did "middle class" mean to you when you were 20-30 something? [View all]tularetom
(23,664 posts)31. I thought we were after we bought our first home
We were able to do so with no money down under VA financing. It was 1967 or 68 and I would have been 26 or 27 years old. We paid $18k for the house and our payments were about $150 per month. We drove a 10 year old car that we didn't owe anything on. We had two kids under 4 and my wife didn't work.
Our annual income was probably less than $12,000 a year.
We weren't really very well off but we were to dumb to realize that. And there were a lot of people who were worse off than we were.
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More and more Americans today are in the lower straits of society financially, but many think
RKP5637
Dec 2012
#7
How funny you should bring this topic up. I was thinking this morning and telling my
southernyankeebelle
Dec 2012
#16
I always thought "A Raisin in the Sun" was a good example of moving the middle
Heather MC
Dec 2012
#22
Things are like they are now b/c the rich and corporations bought their politicians.
Dustlawyer
Dec 2012
#32
right now I'd consider being middle class being able to pay my insurance premiums and copays
liberal_at_heart
Dec 2012
#38