I am about to turn 24, and I (am lucky enough to) still live with my parents whereas most of my friends have already "moved on." I live in a small town in the bible belt, and it seems like a good chunk of the people that just graduated college are now getting married to their high school sweetheart and having kids right off the bat. Some of my other high school friends (I didn't have a good college run) are now actuaries, accountants, and IT guys and are relatively comfortable with serious partners. Needless to say, I can't really relate to them at all anymore, unfortunately (nor would they really have time to get together regardless).
Idk I just kinda feel embarrassed about the state of my life as a person in their mid-twenties still living at home and I'm curious if anyone can relate. My parents aren't rich or anything like that, so they can't help me pay off my student debt or any of my medical bills, but they're giving me a place for free so I cannot complain. It seems like everywhere I go I can't get away from people (or even media in general) mocking the idea of living with your parents because you're a loser with mental health problems who can't pull yourself up by the bootstraps and start a company with your trust fund money or some shit
'Lower middle class' just means 'my parents saw some class mobility in their lives'. My folks are fine, really bootstrapped and bodysurfed their way through the economic tides over the years and now own their own homes, and yet they struggle to see how anyone could fall short on such a path because of it.
I don't know why I used the term "lower middle class." Perhaps to try to paint a visual?It's all working class
My dad always made a decent salary and works for a boss, but calls himself a capitalist