Idk why but in my parent’s social circle… everyone seem to be some type of successful small bussiness owner and own several rentals or a bunch of stocks or like doing international trade or whatever…
Like one of my aunts owns a 4 family home in Brooklyn and lease two of them out and combined two units on the 1st floor into 1… her husband is a college professor and has a real estate license… and also a bunch of trade licenses…
(this is not the “married at 21 and have kids” story, its a different story)
they have so much video game consoles at home…
Their kids constantly go to some PAID afterschool thing and weekend school… (from what I heard)
And I assume they also had to go to Chinese school since I’ve been told they learned Chinese? (lolol I didn’t have to cuz I actually went to 2nd grade in China so I already knew how to read)
Like… literally the stereotypical Asian family… BUT THEY HAVE VIDEO GAME CONSOLES AND I DIDNT EVEN GET ANY WTF MOM?
So I was told this cousin, around my age, apparantly went to go on to do international bussiness and “made millions of dollars” like early 20s…
Nah I think they’re exaggerating…
Their mom and dad (the mom is my aunt, who is my dad’s sister) owns real estate I think…
I mean they used to have one in Philly and they asked my dad and mom to do property management for them… but later they sold it cuz its was too far and too much of a hassle…
And my mom also have another friend (old classmate? or like and old teacher she used to have?) in Philly that owns like 5 rentals…
Like my parents social circle is so weird…
like everyone is just “middle class” and if you are just living paycheck to paycheck, you lose “face”…
Like I think the vast majority of Chinese immigrants own their homes…
So not owning a home is actually considered a failure lol…
Jolteon@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
They could have gotten a two-year certificate from a trade school or one of the few associates degrees that is sufficient to get yourself a job in the field.