I grew up fairly poor although I didn’t feel like I ever went without anything. I lived in a small terrace with just my mum and siblings but went to school in the ‘posh’ area. I never remember feeling poor, but it was clear that the other kids had more eg. They lived in much bigger houses (I remember thinking how posh their houses were every time I went to my friend’s houses, one even had an en suite!!), went abroad at least once a year, had both parents present and had more expensive clothes (they could afford Top Shop!!).
DH had a similar upbringing.
Me and DH were discussing last night how about how you don’t really realise how things change over time. We now live in a very mumsnet naice area, can afford multiple abroad trips per year and our children have very different lives to ours when growing up. Our house is by much bigger than my old school friend’s that I was once so impressed by and our DC go to private school (neither of us had even met anybody as a child that went to private school!). If our kids went to the schools that we did, they would probably be seen as the posh rich kids which just seems insane to us.
We still feel barely different to how we did growing up but yet our life says otherwise and we can’t really pinpoint where the change happened. We’re far from super well off, but it just seems so strange to reflect back to our childhood and realise how our lives now and our children’s lives are so different to what they once were. It made us laugh thinking about how childhood us would consider us super rich and posh (I don’t think either of us had ever even been in someone’s house that had over 3 bedrooms as a child!).
Anyone else similar?