[TheMercenary]

I felt like we were, but we were not. What we did have was community standing, so I think people treated us like we were wealthy. My dad was teacher all his life, by the time I was born he had been the High School principal for a number of years and that is how I knew him. We lived on the main street of a suburb city of Chicago. So everyone knew where we lived. Modest truely a middle class home of the time. We were solidly middle class. One car family til my dad became the Superintendent for the school system. Things went on like that til I was ten. Who knows what happened but things unravelled a bit around then and he took another job as a principal on the East coast, Long Is. NY, and another, his last, in NJ. He left education about then and never looked back. We remained middle class in income with quite a few bumps to some economic lows. I have had the most economic success of all of my family members. I attribute it to nothing more than making some early firm career choices and sticking to them, followed by a few more career choices that required personal sacrifice and the commitment to go back to college for an advanced degree. Another correct choice. I was lucky.