People Who Grew Up Rich, What Did You Think Was Normal? (r/AskReddit)

I wasn´t rich when I was young, but in the top tier of the middle class. When I was 22 I had a short 5 month relationship with a girl. The first time I visited her home she offered something to drink. I said "Coke, please", and she offered me a cola type drink from a cheaper brand. Not realizing how offensive it could sound, I simply asked "Why don´t you have Coke?". She answered "Because it´s expensive". That´s the exact moment I started noticing how lucky I was.

Had a little of both, initially grew up kinda poor, but my parents divorced and when one of them remarried they started doing very well so we were pretty well off after a few years, but I’d still go back and forth between my parents obviously so I knew both sides of the coin to an extent, I was lucky enough to graduate with no debt and a nice car so I was very thankful. The only real thing that struck me how lucky I was at the time was fixing something versus replacing it completely, not with big things obviously but more smaller stuff

I didn’t grow up rich by any means, but my family had always had access to health insurance, so sometimes I forget that most people weren’t in the situation and have to pay for their appointments and medicine out of pocket

My family is upper middle class or more and definitely has some money compared to my friends and acquaintances. Something that made me realize that our lifestyle was out of the norm is the fact that we tend to move every 2-3 years for my dads job and the houses are all a million or more. The other thing was my brother crashing multiple cars and my parents just buying him a brand new one each time. The last thing was the fact that my family regularly renews our passports(most of my friends don’t even have passports)and can pay college tuition’s without having savings for it and just pay straight up

I'm Canadian and parents weren't filthy rich, dad was a firefighter and mom a union grocery worker) but we went to Disneyland and Seattle and didn't use plastic cups and plates as regular dishes at home. My parents are divorced and my dad and his gf have a lakeside house.

I never even realized a central vac was a “rich” thing. My family has always been average middle class and when we built our house we had a central vac in the kitchen and one hallway, super useful. I would always play with it as a kid to hear the loud sucking whoosh it made and just to suck up random things into it until my parents got mad and told me to stop xD

Ignorance doesn't make you an asshole. Stupidity does. Ignorance and stupidity are not, and should not be treated, the same.

Absolutely fantastic 😍. I really loved these stories 😍.

my body is my temple

"I thought doctors and lawyers lived in the poor part of town" - I can't 😂👏 Well i guess you can just call me a raccoon cause I must live in a dumpster

Meanwhile, me growing up in a middle class family (could apply to working class too): taking showers using a basin and a bucket, having fans and no AC (AC was like a privilege), hand-me-downs from siblings, using old clothes for cleaning and playing with cheap Chinese toys.

I grew up the happiest kid and I wouldn't have changed a thing :)

This is like in Dune when Paul had to explain to the desert people what drowning is.

Being "poor" isn't the normal it's just average. No rich and rich behaviour is abnormal or wrong it's just a different circumstance. Arrogant of the poor to make the rich feel like their doing something wrong or the way they are or choose to be is wrong.

Like are they supposed to feel bad about it, feel guilty and start doing things differently, why does knowing what happens outside your home matter more for the rich? Should they start doing things differently, why to make you feel better?

Rich people have their normal and poor people do too. What, should they feel guilty about their normal? Disgusting!

Pay your parents back for student loans? They're already rich lol, just do your job well and that is the transaction 😂

I have been called out, I always get the cheapest things on the menu or oppt out of like special presents for holidays and stuff and always buy practical things when/if my parents force me to "have some fun we have the money right now".

The kids at my school were so posh that some of them had matching shoes.

Some people just get the best rng

Honestly, if I ever become insanely rich and have kids, I will be making them do chores for pocket money, they will be flying in public planes, using public transport, and going to an actual school. I wouldn’t go as far as to starve them if they ran out of cash, but I would make them work for it. It’s what my parents did for me and I’m happy

I went to a university where half the student body were filthy rich students from overseas. They would buy coffee from Starbucks instead of 7E/Family Mart/vending machines, drive expensive cars (eg: Volkswagen and BMWs), use Beats by Dre and Airpods earbuds, and take overseas trips during semester breaks.

Wasn't having a helper is normal???

If you were to attend in a prestigious school in Switzerland in the mid 90s and met a North Korean kid who's into basketball ball. Then, that kid is probably Kim Jong Un.

i thought that all houses were $600,000+. I grew up rich with my parents hoping i’d be a spoiled brat. But I was frugal, and I’d get yelled at “You don’t get stuff you NEED for your birthday. Splurge.”

I’m glad there are cheaper houses for when we can eventually get one of our own.

I married “down” to be working-class, and I’m much happier than I was rich.

My family is pretty well off, well enough to afford a convertible and a pool in the span of 4 years or so, but even early on in life they quickly had be develop a sense of money and how much things cost, and this really put into perspective just how rich some people are and how badly some kids are taught basic economics

My body is a temple... ancient, crumbling, and probably haunted.

I thought it was normal for parents to pay for college for context I'm going to dental school but turns out that people take out a lot of student debt while i will come out of dental school debt free

Growing up I had very weird ideas about what is wealth. I thought eating potato chips was a rich's thing, if we didn't have them it meant we were poor. I didn't realize we had the money for tons of chips, only our parents wanted us to grow healthy with natural, home food or supporting small local businesses, charitable, organic, sustainable or handicrafted stuff. I felt bad because we used to have wholegrain fresh pasta made by ethnics from a rural area instead of manufactered macaroni from the supermarket, or people in the family knitting sweaters to gift us instead of synthetics from the mall mass-made in a sweatshop, I was so dumb and innocent lol I thought it was a shame to use stationery goods of unblanched, recycled paper instead of the pollutant, whitened shit my classmates had because their cheap parents just didn't care. My wonderful mom was woke decades before to be woke was a thing and stupid insecure me believed her choices meant we were tasteless or poor or that she didn't have urban finesse.

The real thing for me is how to get the positions that make you this much money.
I wonder with my engineering degree if i can ever make enough money to have a second home.
Probably not, middle class forever i guess.

Chris Rock insisted that his school expel his daughter, to teach her a life lesson after she got caught sneaking out and didn't seem remorseful.

I grew up pretty poor and still am to a point but I went to school with rich kids that made fun of the poor kids and the irony is 20+ years later some of the " poor kids" ended up Dr's and Lawyers and business people...the rich kids most ended up in trailer parks and Karen's lol😅

Going skiing and going to multiple foreign countries multiple times within the year

Being able to pay off tuition in full isn’t a filthy rich thing

my childhood best friend was wealthy both her parents drove luxury cars specially a Cadillac/Mercedes Benz and she now drives a Mercedes Benz C Class Cabriolet and probably her moms 2018 S580. in High school I carried $6.00 a day for school breakfast & Lunch unless we were going on a field trip or I was walking to the YWCA after school

"Only middlr class" is rich to a poor kid.

When I was a child, I thought it was normal to go on holidays to a hotel, have the hotel manager personally greet you and have welcome gifts for you in the hotel room. And have all hotel charges cancelled when you go to check out.

My father's little brother's current girlfriend (not his wife because that woman is dead) once talked with me on my last trip in China.
Somehow, we were discussing my mother's younger sister's son, and how that guy had a baby picture of himself. He is now in his 30s, with a wife and two boys, living in China.
When that woman learned that we had baby pictures of ourselves in the 1990s, in China, she immediately knew that we were already very fortunate.
At that time, in the 1990s, most people would have their own pictures taken at the photography studio by a photographer.
My mother's side of the family had always been a bit better off than the majority of Chinese society because my mother's maternal grandfather was the peasant boy who left the countryside and got into the city and became literate and became a doctor and made all his sons and daughters to go to college, and this guy married the daughter of a landlord (my mother's maternal grandmother), and they had 5 kids together (the second child became my mom's mom or my maternal grandmother).

I thought house cleaners, body guards, and traveling across oceans for the weekends was normal until I was 13/14 ish. I got 5k a month allowances, a McLaren for a first car, and a personal chef. Seriously this was all like daily.. Whoops. Still people not having house cleaners is weird to me

My body is my temple.

Yeah, no, that kid was dumb. If you're wealthy, you don't simply discard of something just because it doesn't work anymore. You should already have people who can fix it for you, and if it doesn't work as good as it did, you give it to one of your family members. When you're wealthy, you don't buy cheap stuff that will break often. You want to buy more durable things so that you can pass them down. I understand that cars can depreciate in value, but there's a reason why you see old money driving older cars and not buying the newest thing like the way nouveau riche people do.

Rich people not understanding how poor poor people are reminds me of a book of Chinese Myths I'm reading at the moment and its clear they were written by the scholar class. So many times they talk about poor people and then randomly refer to the poor peoples maids and retainers. Like for them the servants weren't really people so didn't actually count in who was poor. That and how half the stories have people going for their bachelors degree (As its translated) or masters degree... in a similar way to how many artsy movies are about struggling screen writers who have rich parents who don't understand them.

My body is my temple

For people who are sad that they do not have a wooden fridge: remember, at least you can customize your fridge with cool magnets

Do these people not have TV’s? Have they not seen any movies or shows? How hard is it to stay this out of touch with reality, it’s gotta be a full time job.

How many of these reddit comments are actually real?, prob about 20%

Sh*t just makes me mad. Kept making the same face with every dang story. 🤨