You have to be accepted into the upper
class, otherwise you stay upper middle
class.

Yacht, Jet, Spago, West Edmonton Mall.

I’m not poor, but I really don’t enjoy socializing with moneyed, privileged people.

Been there, done that. Its BORING.

I don’t give a crap what kind of wine you like, what art shows you attended or that you can afford a watch that costs $80k.

People who are born in the lap of luxury have NO CLUE about what ordinary people have to go through to survive. And they DON’T CARE.
They ALL want a discount even though they can easily afford to pay their own way.

I’d rather eat a PB&J with a poor family who SHARES what little they have with a stranger, than waste 5 minutes with the other side.

The bible says it is harder for a rich man to get into heaven than it is for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle. Boy God wasn’t kidding.

I also have a relation who graduated Summa Cum Laude from college and is still on public assistance. It is very difficult to get off…once on it. It seems easier to keep income low to qualify for the government checks, low income housing and free healthcare through Medicaid…rather than work a decent job to bring oneself into the often struggling middle class.

It is not easy to move up in class. I agree.

We’re following different sports, different celebrities, watching different TV programs.

It would be useful, if you frequently do run into people who are out of your social circle, to stay informed on current events in a variety of topics. (Easy enough to do these days with the help of the Internet)

Yes! We always liked to eat at the Italian restaurant/brewery at the corner in the old square, but this year when we visited it was gone.

I did not say that upper-class people are not nice, but simply that the people in that particular neighborhood were not as friendly as those in my parents’ neighborhood.

“Friendly” is not quite the same as “nice.” I did NOT mean that upper-class people are more rude, snobby, mocking, unkind, or otherwise mean-spirited than people of other classes. In fact, I have met both nice and mean people from all classes. Rather, I meant that people of classes other than my own (both upper and lower) are often less friendly — i.e. less likely to greet or strike up a conversation with me, a stranger.

Though I have no studies to cite to back up my opinion, I believe that most of us (including me) are less likely to chat with strangers whose class appears to be different from our own. That doesn’t mean we can’t get along with people of different classes, just that we tend to be introduced to those people more formally — through mutual friends or through work — than by striking up conversations on the street.

I apologize if I was unclear on my meaning — I thought a longer explanation in the article would have gotten too far off track.