Are Upper Middle class folks better neighbors than lower middle class- GENERALLY? (renters, bedroom)
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I live in what I’m assuming most would consider an upper middle class townhome community of about 50 homes. Prices run from mid 600s to mid 800s, we’re gated and have an HOA. Basically everything some view as negatives for good neighbors. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
Over the years I’ve helped and been helped with things like watering plants and picking up newspapers when traveling, moving trash cans to the curb and back, walking a dog when gone for a long part of the day, letting in a service person when I was stuck in traffic, borrowing eggs or cups of sugar, driving more than 1 resident to medical treatments, providing food to the same or for family during a death and so much more.
My upper middle class neighbors are the most friendly and helpful folks I’ve ever had the privilege to call friends and neighbors. Assuming about neighborhoods or people based on the price of homes or personal bias is a waste of time. If you extend a hand of friendship, most people will do the same.
I agree. To the extent that there is evident pride in ownership within the neighborhood, its a coin flip.
I've seen plenty of goofy, or simply bad, neighbors in upper middle class neighbors.
The one thing you're less likely to see is the "car on blocks in a yard that's two feet tall" in a nicer neighborhood. But that depends on the local zoning or HOA in the first place.
In my experience, it is all luck of the draw. We have lived next to the full range of income in various neighborhoods. The level of income has never given an indication of how our neighbors are going to act. We are currently in a neighborhood with lawyers, tradesmen, teachers, white collar managers, bankers and retirees. Everybody helps and watches their neighbors without being obtrusive.
It has been a wonderful place to live, mostly because we got lucky.
Slam dunk: Smallest house in an upper-middle-class neighborhood, assuming the ethnic/racial demographics are the same.
Why would that even matter? An upper-middle-class neighborhood is just that regardless, just as a lower-middle-class neighborhood would be.
To answer the OP, as many have said, it is a crapshoot. The lower class area might be close to regentrifying which would eventually make your big house worth a lot more. A lot of lower middle class folks take pride in their property and you will see them out washing their own windows, sweeping the sidewalks and taking care of their lawns. The upper class people will pay others to perform maintenance services, the lower class folks will do the jobs themselves.
I live in what I’m assuming most would consider an upper middle class townhome community of about 50 homes. Prices run from mid 600s to mid 800s, we’re gated and have an HOA. Basically everything some view as negatives for good neighbors. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
Over the years I’ve helped and been helped with things like watering plants and picking up newspapers when traveling, moving trash cans to the curb and back, walking a dog when gone for a long part of the day, letting in a service person when I was stuck in traffic, borrowing eggs or cups of sugar, driving more than 1 resident to medical treatments, providing food to the same or for family during a death and so much more.
My upper middle class neighbors are the most friendly and helpful folks I’ve ever had the privilege to call friends and neighbors. Assuming about neighborhoods or people based on the price of homes or personal bias is a waste of time. If you extend a hand of friendship, most people will do the same.
Sounds like you have some great neighbors. Lucky you.
We've had great neighbors over the years as well. Extending a hand in friendship is indeed a good way to get things rolling.
Sounds like you have some great neighbors. Lucky you.
We've had great neighbors over the years as well. Extending a hand in friendship is indeed a good way to get things rolling.
People tend to treat you better if you're interesting to them, have something they want, or "make the neighborhood look good".
If you're boring, mundane, and ugly, people will speculate and generate rumors.
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