Serious question,
Did you grow up poor/in poverty?
>>59271081
nope but i wish i did, life would have been more interesting
>>59271081
yes
my parents divorced when I'm 7
then I lived with mom
she was so depressed so she couldn't work 2 or 3 days in a week
>>59271081
yes but not extreme so it was pretty nice life was a dream and I could blame it all on other people but I cried a lot so yeah oh and i almost died
>>59271081
thought i was
turns out parents are ultra rich and just didn't want me to be a spoiled faggot. also they're jews basically
Relative to the first world.
>>59271081
My parents are narcissistic cunts that earned their first million by the time they were 20 and were worth 300 million by their 30s, but lost most of their net-worth in 2008. They act like wannabe Rockefellers.
My parents did.
>>59271081
No, I can't say I have but I always was poorer than my friends anyway. Like they all had nice houses with gardens when I had a roof that let rain in, cracks in the wall, they had the PS 3 when I was still playing the PS 1/2, dope bikes when I had a 30 y.o one etc
But I never minded it tb.h
>>59271221
couldn't you tell from the house/appartement you live in?
>>59271287
what do they do?
>>59271321
Well that's the thing: They never allowed him inside the house
>>59271321
no, lived in a shitty house
No.
>>59271167
This exactly
I never felt poor but I guess we were
>>59271081
Of sorts I guess
>>59271348
Development / Construction. They still own a lot of the high value property in my city, but they used to span several states and had several hotels in Miami.
>>59271081
Yes.
>>59271104
No.
>>59271081
Kind of but bot really, we didn't have much money at the very beginning when I was still very little. But about when I got into school my father started earning well... it took a bit for my mother because she had been a slave intern at the hospital for a couple of years but nowadays she actually surpassed him since she has become an attending resident.
>>59271287
This is what you get for not investing with Peter Sheiff.
>THE END IS NEAR. INVEST ON MY COMPANY AND REPENT OF ALL YOUR SINS!!!!!
Jokes aside, its good that they work together and had sucess togheter.
Will you follow their steps or you are that son that play vydia. smoke weed and hate your parents on a daily basis?
Not really, my parents had some dificulties for some time, but never got hunger or anything.
>>59272041
*attending physician.. dunno what the hierarchy looks like in the US but I think it's the same
>>59271287
Don't you get along with your parents?
it was hard, my father is in debt of like 20 thousand to the government and still raising since 2008 crisis
>>59271287
>earned their first million by 20
>>59271857
what do they think of trump?
do they maybe know him professionally, since they're in the same business?
Yeah. Grew up in a ghetto and I got a job as soon as I got out of high school in order to help my dad support my mom and 6 sisters. Most of my sisters got jobs right out of high school too, except for my youngest sister. We're all pretty well off now though.
>>59272410
>7 kids
>ghetto
>mom and dad still togheter
And they say that the problem with blacks in america is that they are opressed by "institutionalized racism"...
Just the fact that you got both your parents gave you and your siblings a huge advantage already.
>>59271081
look at my flag and you'll know the answer
>>59271300
mine too
>>59272498
Dominican actually. My mom and dad are still together to this day though, which is funny because they married pretty early.
Nope, I was born rich, went to a great college, parents completely paid it off, and give me tons of money a month because they're proud of me.
no, but i grew up surrounded by some people that did
>>59272594
And yet, you are a failure like all of us :D
>>59272592
Nice.
How old are you? Are you the oldest?
>>59271081
My family was very rich up to when I was 15. My father went bankrupt in 2008 and killed himself. After that, I lived in a small house in the suburbs with my grandparents up to when I was 20 years old, since then I live in a rented apartment. I had everything someone would want, and lost everything so quick. Nowadays I only have my grandparents and my two brothers, my mother commited suicide two years ago.
Yes but somehow we always managed to live in nice neighborhoods so it was no biggie.
>>59272670
34, and yeah I'm the oldest. My sisters aren't that much younger than me though. Most have already been married and are living comfy lives.
>>59272799
Did he kill himself because he got bankrupt?
>>59272799
Holy shit, are you me? Literally the same story here.
>>59272799
>>59272799
>>59272856
>>59272883
Nobody in Brazil kills itself for went bankrupt.
If ppl did this, 90% of the country would be wiped out clean.
t. 1000 in debt on the bank
>>59272852
The land of the free.
Here, you guys would probably live AND die in a favela without a chance of getting a decent life.
>>59272898
Do you know why he killed himself?
>>59272856
Yeah. He killed himself the morning they started to auction our house. Left a note saying it was not our fault, and for my mother to stay strong.
>>59272917
In hueland, ppl usually kill themselvs because they dont have a family or because they have love problems.
MOney is not something that would make ppl take their life.
>>59272931
>Left a note saying it was not our fault, and for my mother to stay strong.
Lel what a dick, no offense
>>59271081
Yes. I was really poor, and then dad died when I was like 14, though is better this way. Lived with my mom and my sister since then.
I am better now, but it was really bad, though it didn't feel like that.
Well, yeah, kinda
I was sharing a room with my brother all my life and all the way through uni, sleeping on a mattress laid down on the ground, always had to fear if they would cut out the power, never could invite anyone over since the house was a mess, never travelled abroad etc.
>>59272898
>Nobody in Brazil kills itself for went bankrupt.
Vênancio Aires...
>>59272898
>>59272962
>Let me tell you about your life
Hell yes, because I feel like lying about my parents's death in a fucking anonymous board.
>>59273011
Agrotóxicos...
>>59271167
>>59271181
>>59271895
>>59272410
>>59272498
Why didn't your parents just work harder?
>>59273044
heh
pulling yourself up with your own bootstraps is the biggest meme of all time
Yes. My father was intelligent and had good employment (managed an IT team at a Fortune 500 company), but he died when I was young. Due to his gambling problem, my family was left penniless. My mother managed restaurants previously, but dropped out of the workforce to raise my brother and I. She was out of the workforce for such a duration that she never found decent employment.
It was pretty shitty, but we lived in a rural, white area so I never had to experience life in a ghetto.
>mom grew up in rural Newfoundland in the 60/70's
>father in a big irish catholic family in St. John's in the 50's/60's so lower middle class in both cases
>moved to a commuter town in Ontario and had me in a generally middle class life
>around 11 or 12 it started to feel more like upper middle class
>moved in a house worth roughly 450-500k that's nearly paid off now(19yo currently)
>bought a house to rent out in St. John's
>Mom makes ~100k/yr after taxes, dad makes around 70k
so generally middle class but then got wealthier in the teens
>>59272898
Yeah, same would have been true if I still lived in the Dominican Republic. Thankfully my parents moved here when I was 2 so I got auto citizenship. We send money to my grandmother who still lives there, she can't keep up with the monthly charge to keep my grandfather in his tomb.
>>59273128
Thats nice anon.
What are the odds of her living DR?
>>59272931
>and for my mother to stay strong.
what a troll
>>59273157
I assume you mean leaving. There's basically zero chance of that. My mom tried to, but apparently her parents threw away her birth certificate because for some reason. Not that she could travel now anyway, she has had heart surgery lately. Makes me sad to think she will die in that shack of a house.
>>59271081
I grew up in exactly what you'd think of when you hear "middle class American family." My parents started with very little but worked hard to get where they are today.
I wanted for nothing, cannot complain.
>>59271081
Yes.
>Moved to Israel with mom, dad and grandmother in 1994
>Barely know the language
>Trying to make due
>Dad becomes an alcoholic
>Mom can't stand it anymore and divorces
>He pays alimonies and visits once in a while
>fast forward
>the year is 2000
>Be me reading Disney comic
>A phone rings and I pick it up
>It's from the police, give the phone to mom
>They say dad was found dead in the park nearby
>Go to the police station to pick up his remaining few stuff
>Few weeks later doctors discover my grandmother has advanced cancer
>She dies within 4 months on my mom's birthday
>Can't pay for the rent anymore so we are forced to move to a small 2 room apartment in an old building
>mom forced to work in 2 jobs to be able to provide us enough for food and stuff for me in school
>At the age of 14 start working as a flyer delivery boy
>Continue working in different shitty jobs until the army
>Before the ay mom's health fails due to many years in hard labor work
>She is forced to leave and until now she's been working as an elderly people's assistant few times a week
>During the army had no choice but to work in security at the expense of sleeping hours
>At 21 finish the 3 years service and start working insane hours in security in order to finally live decently
>>59271081
Yeah, many times we went without food water electricity
>>59273305
I remember you from another thread
>>59273269
Yeah. Leaving.
>the problems of learning english through listening alone
Why she dont get another copy with the goverment? This should be easy.
My parents convinced my grandma to move in with them. Its cool desu. She make company to my mother eatching soap operas and my mother make appointments to the docter the old lady needs it.
Its an overall good relationship.
>>59273305
that sucks man
>>59273331
See. All of this happened because of your country.
PAY REPARATIONS NOW!!!
>>59273011
For those how don't know. Vênancio Aires is "THE CAPITAL" of suicide in the world. We have 37.22/100000 suicides per year.
Some people blame poison, or tobacco plantations, but the people from the region blame the 70% german muh heritage.
Not even kidding. My grand mother kill herself this year just because she didn't like Carnaval. One of his neighbor hang himself because his corn plantation was soaked and ruined.
For fucking sake, I remember when my grand father get cancer and ask me to handle his shotgun "because niggers".
>>59273036
My grand mother once told me that when she travel to Brazil, her grand-father was so scared with the end of food (over crowed boat with immigrants) that he jump of the boat when no one was looking to save food.
>>59273397
Stop it Ronaldo
>>59273428
>My grand mother kill herself this year just because she didn't like Carnaval.
Hahahahahahahahaha wtf
>>59273428
>My grand mother once told me that when she travel to Brazil, her grand-father was so scared with the end of food (over crowed boat with immigrants) that he jump of the boat when no one was looking to save food.
What?
Also, where you are right now and they emigrated from where?
>>59273348
She'd probably have a heart attack from the plane taking off, she has never even been in a building higher than 5 floors. Most of my aunts and uncles on my mother's side visit her almost everyday anyway.
>>59271081
I've been middle class for almost my whole life, by American standards I guess I was poor. Now things are way better but still wouldnt consider myself rich or anything.
>>59273331
Really? Which one?
>>59273369
Yes it is
>>59273471
Not kidding.
One day she pretend to sleep, wait until the nurse check her room, steal a wheelchair security belt, go to the bathroom and hang herself in one of those showers security supports. (yeah, i know the irony)
She really hate black people. Her nursery home was pretty white, but the television always depress her.
>>59273485
Nice.
You should see her too nigga. Old ppl like when the young descendents visit them.
I do this about once every 2 months just to check on my gramps.
>>59273484
I am in Lajeado.
This parent line come from Bohemia after WWI. Since they are catholic, they chose brazil.
Yes, my family had to move to countryside three times to work as housekeepers because we couldn't even afford renting a house. Although we had times of misery, I'm proud that we never had debts or needed to take loans.
Things got better, but I cannot call myself middle class yet.
I believe that most of my countrymen here on /int/ comes from a rich background.
>>59273542
why didn't she move to argentina? argentina is white.
>>59273521
I don't know it was a long time ago.
>>59273542
You made it sound like she killed herself and left a note which goes like "fuck Carneval, I've had enough of this."
>>59273590
89 years old. Forget how to speak Portuguese due Alzheimer.
Sure, lets send you to another country.
>>59273087
>b-but muh anecdotal evidence
>>59273565
Flights are pretty expensive, but we usually visit her during the summer. I would have liked for her to visit though.
>>59273593
She literally threat kill herself if the nurse didn't shut down the tv.
Two day latter she did it.
>>59271081
Not really. When i was a kid we werent poor but we also didnt have alost any luxury. The last few years both my parents got higher payings positions at their jobs and they earn quite a lot, but because they arent the vain kind we still dont have many luxuries, but ourlives have improved a lot
>>59273576
>This parent line come from Bohemia after WWI.
Well shit. If after all those years she was still grumpy, she was a lost case.
>>59273642
She was a women of principle. I gotta give her that..
>>59273612
i was just memeing
>>59273590
You want her to live in this? kek
>>59273661
She was born in Brazil. And yes, she was grumpy.
It get worse when my grand father die before i was born.
Also, she was always sick. My father first memories was playing with his sister with a lot of medicine flasks...
>>59273724
>My father first memories was playing with his sister with a lot of medicine flasks...
My sides.. holy shit the way you Brazilians tell stories is funny as fuck. Brazilians are based posters
>>59273700
At least the grass looks neat, give a house like that to a Brazilian and you will have garbage in the doorstep. (and a tv antenna, because poor folk here are like this: they may not have a decent house, but they will have luxury items like cable tv, apple smartphones and fancy motorbikes)
>>59271081
I grew up in a gab between poor and lower middle class.
Basically working class but with parents who were fucking shit at finances.
>>59271081
I did. My Dad was in prison for most of my childhood and we were dependent on church handouts because we could not afford food otherwise. We got flooded and my Mum ended up in a lot of debt because we lost all of our stuff and the house was water-clogged.
>>59273590
I come from germans from russia. We got the crappy patagonian desertish lands. All things considered things are pretty ok.
Regarding
>>59273724
Hopefully I dont have any sad stories to tell.
Father is 65 yo, mother 66. Both of them do sports everyday.
Dude is learning how to use the internet and laugh his ass off disocvering memes and when I send porn videos to his WhatsApp.
Mom is based as always. 66 yo and her skin would make a lot of teenage girls envy.
These two are running on Duracell batteries I think.
>>59273819
>My Dad was in prison for most of my childhood
Weshalb?
>>59273819
Why did your father end up in jail?
Back in time Austria didn't have the social security that now brings hundreds of refugees?
>>59273700
> grass
> pretty trees
Add a nice door and a proper roof and that's you've got a cute house.
You can tell a someone at least cares about it because they have pots with plants.
>>59273819
Wow man, that's tough. Did you overcame it?
>>59273827
Nice, but 66 and 65? how old are you m8?
>>59273840
>>59273867
He was in prison for selling cocaine. My Mum and him had too many children too young, so he turned to crime to pay for the family. Then when he went to prison there were 5 children to look after and the benefits were simply not enough to feed and clothe all of us. Especially since flooding destroyed finances. So the church was the one we had to go to.
>>59273914
Much better now. Things have improved a lot for us in the last 5 years or so.
>posting on /int/
>not poverse disgusting shitskinned-wrapped biologic garbage
Absolutely astonishing misrecognition of the obvious truth there, m8. /int/ is poorfags; the board.
>>59273972
Most of us at least.
There are probably some really kid ppl around here.
But most of us are just barely making it.
I remember this dude that was living on his truck/van because he didnt have money to afford rent.
To get water or food, he had to walk to theneared burger joint and get what he needed.
He was eating burgers straight because he could not efford anything elses.
>>59273935
I don't know if it's common for people older than 25 come to /int/, but i am glad that i am not the oldest.
>>59273968
must be hard watch all your stuffs simple go away...
Hope that things get better.
>>59273972
I fucking learn English (or at less get close to it) in the last 8 years browsing 4chan.
Maybe many people come to /int/ for the cheap friendship. And this place is know for not judging people beside their countries stereotypes.
Have to sleep pals. Hard working day tomorrow.
>>59274179
Thanks, you have a good life as well.
>>59274179
Oldest on /int/ is 42.
The anon from DR is 32.
Also, dont forget that most of us, thought "older" than others, are oldfags. We grew up with this shit site.
>>59271081
Yes. Parents are millionaires, though not quite as rich as >>59271287
>>59273700
At least they get to keep their heads
>>59271081
No, I grew up wealthy.
But all my friends were p00r. I guess my parents didn't come from really wealthy backrounds growing up, and they never discouraged me from having poor friends.
I stuck with them as long as I could but a lot of them are either dead, have substance abuse problems, are criminals, have become NEETS, or are just insane.
I informally adopted my best friend into our family because his parents killed themselves and he has no siblings.
Sometimes all he had to eat for a week was water and a block of cheddar cheese.
I'm starting a 30k salary this monday, but desu I'm still haunted that I'm the only one who seems to have made it this far.
Except my bro, he's doing alright too I guess.
>>59271081
I was born into a middle class family living on a huge comfy property. Then around the time I was 6-7 my parents divorced and lost everything, My brother and I had to live with mum on $12,000 a year. Things are bit better now.
>>59271287
don't lie you attention seeking faggot, here's your (you)
losers and poor people congregate on 4chan to vent their frustrations
upper Lower class hard working immigrants parents. But we were not poor. in fact, I had a lot of neet gadgets as a kid.
>>59271081
Nope, probably I even spend more dolarooos than you Jamal. In your own country.
You know why? Because I'm white
no but i'm poor now
>>59271081
No...ish.
My mother was a "stay at home mom" (read: watched soap operas all day, spent my father's money, and rarely (if ever) cooked) because my dad made enough money for the both of them, and to raise my little sister and I, AND have some left over for vacations and so on.
HOWEVER, my parents had a clear favourite, and it wasn't me.
My little sister wants a new TV? She gets it. She wants a laptop? She gets it. She wants to go out? She does. Concerts, movies, shopping...anything her little heart desired, she got. Hell, even now she's going to university and my parents are paying for her EVERYTHING (housing, schooling, transport, food, phone, bills, etc.).
And then there was me. I guess I was an accident, or maybe I just suffered from being the middle-ish child (I have an older half brother), I honestly don't know. I had freedom to do whatever, sure, but that only came because my parents literally didn't give two fucks about me. 13 and out at 03h? Who cares. I need glasses? Too bad, I'd better get a job and pay for them. Hungry? You're damn right I wasn't allowed to eat "their" food.
I paid rent to them starting when I was able to work, was homeless for a bit...basically I didn't really have parents. Sure they gave me a roof and a bed, but outside of that and the bare minimum I needed to live on until I was "old enough", I had no support from them. So while THEY were well off, I was (and still am) not.
On the one hand, it sucks. But on the other, it's really helped me to be independent. I'm married, have my own place, have a steady job, pay all my own bills (though I've always done that, so whatever), and...yeah. I'd have liked to do post-secondary too, but I'm happy enough where I am.
tl;dr: parents have money, but my little sister is their only care; I was basically neglected, and was (and still am) a poorfag.
Nah my parents are rich.
>>59273305
רוסי? אתיופי?
>>59271081
No, my father owns two businesses. He gave me 50k when I turned 18 so I could start my own life.
All the money is still in the bank and remains untouched, all of my friends have no clue about my wealth.
yea
i was attending school in cloth i grew out because we didnt have money to buy new ones
couldnt buy new shoes when the one i had became unwearable
things were ok before parents divorced
thanks mom and dad for shitting on my life before it started
>>59280709
You still in contact with them? If I were you I'd disown them.
>>59271081
I don't know what the standard for being poor is in a first world nation but
>parents divorced because dad was a cheater
>grew up in a small house sharing a bedroom with one of my brothers
>couldn't afford school uniforms for a while so I got hand-me-downs from my friend's older brother (got bullied at school for that a lot which kinda fucked me up)
>mum couldn't afford to feed all of us so she'd go without dinner a lot, she'd have a small breakfast and grab what she could when there was free food at work
>grandparents would sometimes bring food
>mum was constantly worried about money and losing the house, would constantly talk about how the worry would kill her in the next 10 years
>mum had to work a double-job which stressed her out a lot
>neighbourhood was a bit iffy sometimes but we managed to get by without any major incidents aside from gang-member neighbours from time-to-time
>back then there was no social welfare for our situation so my family got no help from the government at all
>dad usually didn't pay child support because my mum was too foolish to arrange it properly
I don't know if that qualifies, but it makes me kind of angry when people say I have privilege because I'm white, that privilege sure as hell didn't help my family.
>>59271081
I grew up lower middle class even though my parents had a lot of money. My dad lived in the projects till he was ten and my mom was raised by my ultra snobbish rich grandparents. They decided they didn't want to raise a rich brat so didn't buy me anything expensive between the ages of 6-18, then kinda told me I was on my own except for health insurance after high school. They'd do weird stuff like bring home filet mignon, shrimp and risotto dinners for themselves and give me Macaroni and Cheese with cube steak instead. They wanted to motivate me work for myself I guess, but I actually just thought we were poor for a long time. We had pretty much the cheapest shit possible. Only nice things we had at all were a high end TV and a tricked out Mustang. Besides that my parents lived like we were in poverty. Dad would literally drive 3 miles to a different donut store instead of the place down our street because they were 65 cents instead of $1.10 each and said stores like Target and Vons were too expensive. I found out my parents were actually pulling in north of $100k per year when I was 17 and my dad was explaining tax shit to me.
A bit...i had to cry for a week so my parents bought me a Playstation 1....i regret now that they felt pity for me and accepted
Define poor
i mean the house is comfortable, but it is small and debt is very high
we never really had much disposable income because parents were shit at finances
you end up never going to the cinema , rarely going to a restaurant , not having a lot of clothes its been a long time since we last went to vacations , i basically have one pair of shoes i use for everyday
am i poor ?
kek
not a single Norwegian has posted in this thread.
I guess I can answer on behalf of most Norwegian people.
No.
>>59288232
In scandinavian countries, its very difficult for someone to become too poor or too rich.
Everybody is leveled thanks to the high taxes.
>>59271081
>Did you grow up poor/in poverty?
Yes. We were so poor our asses were made of two pieces.
Quite the opposite, but somehow I still managed to fuck up
>>59271081
Extreme poverty (in my counyty). Slept at families' houses until i was 15. We drank boot polish mixed with mentholated spirits mixed together instead of regular alcohol, I got educated at home, and all my food was from the gubberment/what random stranger could spare me. My clothes were from the Salvation Army.
no my parents are rich but i'm a turbo sperg unable to study a serious career so i'll probably end up poor
Not exactly poverty, just with insanely frugal parents, so all my possessions and clothes were second hand but we'd also travel all over the world.
>>59292730
Now that your economy is more pro market, you should copy some kind of business that have worked out in other parts of the planet and go for it.
Or live of dividends.
>>59271081
Yes and they slowly getting rich by owning and renting 2 apartments in Taipei County.
>>59292730
Welcome to the club.
feels bad, like I'm a embarrassment
>>59293074
i don't know the first thing about opening a business though
>>59293218
>>59293264
The two of you had gold in your hands and are about to loose everything.
Dude, if both of you keep more than 3 hours in front of the computer per day playing Dota or whateaver, you can easily learn about economy and stock market.
You could shitpost all day on 4chan while looking at your investiments in other screen.
Its not that simple in the beggining, but you get the basics in 3 months if you study a bit everyday.
>>59293434
I hate numbers and I'm no good with them anyway. I dream of being a writer, I spend plenty of time reading and I keep a journal.
I just have no passion for business whatsoever. My father loves it, but the thought of it drives me insane.
At least my brother will likely be an engineer or statistician so its not like I'm the only hope for my family name
I also have some other mental issues that make it all more difficult.
>>59293900
Dude, I took 3 ritalins THIS MORNING ALONE.
And you dont need to be that good with numbers.
You just have to put some data on Excel, and them compare for how much your brought, how much you sold and what was your incomme.
Not even taxes you have to worry abuot because the IRS probably gettis its taxes in every transaction.
And even better. If you REALLY dont want to learn any of this, just ask your father about dividends and how to "yield" works.
>>59293900
>At least my brother will likely be an engineer or statisticia
that's nice, my sisters are all high end lawyers so the family name is not ruined
>>59282044
Nope. Haven't talked to them since I left.
>>59296278
And how long have you left?
Do you have a good relationship with your sister or she dont like you either?
