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How Thick is Your Bubble

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44 - That's what you get when you grow up in a small town in Tennessee with Ivy-educated parents with 5 degrees between them. Not really a bubble, but definitely a little froth...
 
I didn't realize it was prestigious to grow up as the son of a college prof. I've walked factory floor, seen judge judy, run a jack hammer,therefore hurt all over and I don't drink beer.
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I'm actually rather surprised the nature of your K-12 education wasn't one of the questions on the quiz. My 10+ years in Catholic school played a big part in my bubble. Subsequently, some of the people I met my first year at Tech who came from single-parent families and were taking out huge student loans to be there (including my freshman year roommate), partially popped the bubble for me.
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
I'm actually rather surprised the nature of your K-12 education wasn't one of the questions on the quiz. My 10+ years in Catholic school played a big part in my bubble. Subsequently, some of the people I met my first year at Tech who came from single-parent families and were taking out huge student loans to be there (including my freshman year roommate), partially popped the bubble for me.
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The Catholic school in my heavily Irish town took in all those students who were expelled from the public schools up until the high school years, and only because it didn't offer secondary education. Usually, if stats are to be believed, students being expelled are traditionally from lower-income families, and were at the Catholic school by way of receiving aide. It can't be all that uncommon for those schools.
 
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60.

The quiz should've asked the following:
Have you ever asked someone talking in a movie theater to shut up? Or,
did you go to find an usher or manager to tell?
 
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55 or 60. geezer is poor rural people but doesn't care for pop culture tv and doesn't drink.
 
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55. Totally nailed the description with: "A first-generation upper-middle-class person with middle-class parents." Growing up with a totally blue collar family helped with that.
 
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45, but it would've been higher before I met my wife when I watched more crap TV and ate at more chain restaurants.

Then again, some of those points came from living in a blue collar neighborhood until I was all of five. Though the fact it didn't count my going to school in blue collar (or lower) areas for junior high and high school makes up for it. So maybe the average is about right.

Just outscored my "expected" score, which capped at 43. (2nd generation upper middle class who gets out a lot).
 
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24. Taking care of the inlaws means we don't get out a lot. TV is sports or I'm reading a book.
 
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41. The quiz fails to account for travel within the U.S., international travel and living and working abroad. I'm fairly certain my perspectives and experiences would be a lot more narrow had I not married a non-American, lived outside my birth state for several months, lived in the Middle East, SE Asia and visited every continent but 1.
 
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I'm actually a little worried. My score came in at 70. :confused:

I usually don't fall outside of the middle on most of these quizzes.
 
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I got 44. I've lived in a rural area where most of my neighbors didn't have college degrees and worked blue collar jobs (until I was 19), but my parents had white collar jobs (both teachers). I own a truck, and when we go to camp in the summer, I take my son fishing (even though we aren't very serious fishermen). I also currently live in a small town ( ~5,000 year round population, a few times that in summer), but it is pretty diverse for its size and location. I have a friend that is a hardcore libertarian/republican who constantly belittles liberals on facebook and we sometimes get in arguments (but we usually don't talk politics in person). My 'neighborhood' is interesting now, there is a lawyer and his research scientist wife, a couple of professors at a small hippy college, a lobsterman, and across the street from me is an 86 acre wooded oceanfront compound owned by a hedge fund manager (that seems to be constantly under construction and is currently worth around $6M) - I've never met that guy - he's probably only there a few weeks in the summer.
 
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Lived in a small town, worked on a factory floor, lived in poor neighborhoods, worked manual labor, have plenty of friends with different political views.

Don't eat at chain restaurants (hardly ever eat out at all), don't watch much TV.
 
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44 - not bad for a limousine liberal! This sums it up well:

11–80: A first-generation upper-middle-class person with middle-class parents. Typical: 33.
 
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