8 tweets · July 2021 · 73 likes · 1 retweets · read on Twitter
ongoing 100k convo has me realizing that I grew up not exposed to huge wealth disparity. was in a small town—smaller than you think! ~1500 ppl basically nobody there was loaded and nobody was homeless the kid who seemed fanciest, his dad was... a really successful fisherman?
sure, some people were down on their luck, or living on welfare, and some had more money from a business or whatever... but the scene as a whole felt coherent. everyone kinda knew each other... one school, one church per denomination, two grocery stores, two gas stations
oh I guess maybe some of the folks who had cottages there that they would visit for a month or two in the summer... some of them were probably wealthier? I used to play tennis with some kids from Michigan who would visit their grandparents, they seemed nice
huh. then my parents scrounged up enough money for boarding school since the small-town school wasn't a good place for someone as nerdy as me & my sisters that was definitely a transition to a different scene
then everyone I met there was upper-middle-class to quite-rich, and it wasn't always clear who was who because the kids didn't necessarily themselves have cash and you wouldn't meet their parents or see their homes (and from around the world so culture diffs larger than wealth)
so I guess I saw a fair range, though not all in one room or on one street
noticing I'm not actually thinking about this as clearly as I would be if I were writing it in a private journal or DMs to friends... not sure who would be reading it or why or what their context of me would be so ig I'm gonna leave this here ♥️ gn twttr
> basically [...] nobody was homeless most people would have had enough ties that they would stay with family if broke when I was ~10 there was a gal who was like 20 and leaving some abusive situation… idk what her situation was but I think my mom helped her pay rent for a bit