My father worked his way up from a very young "bagger" at a local grocery to owning his own business by selling industrial food processing equipment, we moved several times with my father taking a higher ranking job each time so the neighborhoods got better with almost every move.
Most of the moves were in New Orleans, and urban/suburban, it is the place I think of as home. I would say that most of the old neighborhoods would now be considered lower to lower middle class, but I always had friends of all races and creeds (my mother was quite the hippy). We would often go fishing, crabbing, crawfishing for most of the day and then invite half of the neighborhood over for a crawfish boil or fish fry. Most of my neighbors were blue collar workers, everyone brought a dish or beverage, the adults would tell jokes/chat and we would run barefooted and play very late into the night:).
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Date: 2006-03-02 01:53 am (UTC)Most of the moves were in New Orleans, and urban/suburban, it is the place I think of as home. I would say that most of the old neighborhoods would now be considered lower to lower middle class, but I always had friends of all races and creeds (my mother was quite the hippy). We would often go fishing, crabbing, crawfishing for most of the day and then invite half of the neighborhood over for a crawfish boil or fish fry. Most of my neighbors were blue collar workers, everyone brought a dish or beverage, the adults would tell jokes/chat and we would run barefooted and play very late into the night:).
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Date: 2006-03-02 09:23 am (UTC)