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In reply to the discussion: Business is booming in Texas! [View all]Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Not rich, not poor. Have a job, make decent money. Worked hard all my life. I'm in my 50's. I've been working for 40 years. I have paid for everything I have by the sweat of my brow. No man has given me anything. I worked 12 years working extreme overtime so that I could save some money for my old age, because I don't have kids or anyone to help me in my senior years.
My dad started as a roughneck on oil rigs...my mom was a stay at home mom. My grandma was a maid and waitress all her life, being widowed at a young age with three boys. My other grandma & grandpa were wealthy, though.
I'm a college dropout who has waited tables, cleaned windows, worked in stereo shops, was a mail gal in an office, worked at Burger King...and finally decided to learn a vocation/paraprofession.
My "socio-economic" background? Ha! That's a laugh. I MOVED away from south Louisiana because the economy there was rotten. If the economy is rotten where you are, you have to work you ass off to save your pennies to MOVE to an area where it's better. It won't be perfect. But it will be BETTER.
The women in southeast Texas live in a beautiful area. There are poor women and men everywhere. But the fact that someone somewhere has it worse there than here is beside the point. There is ALWAYS someone somewhere who will have it worse.
Sweden, you say? You mean the country that has the highest rate of suicide? THAT Sweden?