Ok, I was gone for a day, so I gotta answer to a lot of posts in this one...
A mobile home is a house on wheels, the whole house splits apart, transfer trucks take it to your land, the builders put the two pieces together, they take the wheels off, and vamoosh... You have a house. They're actually quite pretty, I was thinking of getting one for my home... But Rosewood homes look so much better, so I'm moving there.
Yes, I consider my self somewhere in the upper middle class. We have to pay for a machine shop to keep running too, which is quite a lot I might add.
I think middle class is from 80k a year, to 300k a year, ranging from low, middle, and high. Being rich is going farther up. Ofcourse, if you live by yourself making 300k/year, you can probably consider yourself very rich. But a family of four with "gimme this buy me that" It's a little bit different.
Where I live, no one even knows what public transportation is. You can call a taxi from Cornelia, but you have to wait for the 1932 yellow cab-over to arrive, and it costs $50 to take you to wal-mart. My friend brandon lives w/ seven people, none of which have a job. They live in a hovel, complete trash. But he is my best friend, he cares nothing about possessions, only the happiness of himself and his family. He found himself a beater car, it's a '89 tempo gl w/o a front bumper, huge dents all around. We just had to fix the transmition the other day too... His mother is complete trash, I hate to say that about my best friend's mother, but she is. The family layout is:
1st kid : Indian/mexican
2cd kid: Indian/American
3rd kid: American
4th kid: Mexican
5th kid: Mexican
Mother: Indian
Father: No where to be found
They live in a 3BR trailor, and live off social security, and a single pizza every night. You get two medium pizza's for $8 from papa's pizza. Brandon works at Zaxby's, and helps to pay for food. The 2cd kid, Chris, has Muscular Distrophy, and they don't have near enough money to pay for any sort of doctor bills. But they are all happy, nothing in the world bothers them.
I believe myself that everyone has a place in society. If we did not have tons of mexican's working the inane job's at places such as Scovill, a button manufacturer, or Zaxby's, then it would probably lead to our educated people being forced to work at such places, because the business could not hold itself up. A janitor is a very important person, many people just do not realize it. If there were no janitor's in the "Big man's business office" then it would never be clean. However, the big man business dude looks down upon them.
I ONLY look down to the sorry low-lifes, if they have a job, it's great. But if they are living off the taxes that I pay for my candy bars (heh, seeing I don't own a house or anything yet), then they are scum. I'm sorry to say that, but they are. If they have a medical problem that makes it so they can not get a job, that is fine though. But they should not sit and complain about anything, if they don't have a source of income.
I tend to look better to those with fancier houses, cars, and clothing. The first impression to me is always important, and 99% of the time, I'm right about what I think of people. Such as, I'll see David, and he drives a '79 cutlass, wheres ripped jeans, weighs roughly 280lbs, and never bathes, I'm 100% right that he is absolute scum. I've known the guy for quite a while, and he has not once proven himself otherwise.
I myself am thinking of getting an apartment, because I think it'd be cool to live in one, on something like the 30th floor or something. I wish to have either: A home in Rosewood, The Orchid, A "mobile home" (the homes I talked about earlier), or an apartment.
"Too bad so many young unresponsible people put the cart before the horse. Knock a girl up and worry who picks up the tab later. "
I utterly despise those types of people, and I will tell that to their faces.
"I'll interject that I'll spend about $400 a month on food...that's just me by myself. It's not that I eat a lot, it's just that food is expensive...good food, that is. "
Same here, I eat chinese sometimes even seven times a week I go in and I don't even have to order, they'll just bring my special ordered plate, and give me the bill.