Current Events > I gotta tell you it's a weird problem to be posh AND poor

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See me:

• privileged as fuck international travel upbringing
• privileged af rich friends
• grow up in a small home but still go to private school paid for by scholarship
• parents who exhausted their privilege extensively in literally every way EXCEPT financially
• no family money at all. no trust fund, no inheritance, no financial aid from any family resource
• bailing my parents out constantly for petty cash problems because despite having every chance in the world they never learned how to accrue wealth
• All my pals from school had their central city home deposits paid for by the bank of mum and dad
• meanwhile bank of mum and dad paid for my *checks notes* nintendo 64?
• have a posh af international accent that I have to explain every time I meet someone so everyone assumes you're really fucking rich

lol

It's a real niche problem. Imagine sounding like a tory but you ain't? Niche british problems

I feel this and much of that is the same with me.

Save the bailing parents out, as we weren't poor and they aren't currently... they just never had money when I was growing up as a child so only my younger siblings got to see the benefits in their late teens.

Funkydog posted...

I feel this and much of that is the same with me.

Save the bailing parents out, as we weren't poor and they aren't currently... they just never had money when I was growing up as a child so only my younger siblings got to see the benefits in their late teens.

I suspect it might be hard to relate to for americans because I get the impression that being wealthy means you're posh in America?

I suppose it's like coming from old money but having no actual cash or assets...

Polar opposite to my situation.

• Dad was a heroin addict, died when I was young.
• Mum was a dinner lady.
• Grew up with no money in a poor af part of the city.
• Took solace in tv comedy.
• Ended up affecting an accent like Stephen Fry.
• Can't stop.
• First member of my family to go to university.
• Everyone assumes I'm posh.
• Family pulled itself together.
• Doing really well financially.

The End?