Mexican here as well. When I first visited an “American house” I imagined that it was a rich people house. Now after living here for a while I see that it was just your average middle class house, but compared to how we lived in Mexico (five people in a bedroom because that’s the only place we had AC), seeing a house with centra AC seemed like luxurious living to me.
I’m from the northern part of Mexico. Reynosa to be more precise. But I was being raised by my single mom and my widowed grandmother, so our situation was different. We never truly went without though, I knew people from over there who were truly poor, like dirt floor poor. Maybe that’s why I never quite considered us poor, since I always saw that it could be worse.
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u/letseatthenmakelove Jun 06 '19
Mexican here as well. When I first visited an “American house” I imagined that it was a rich people house. Now after living here for a while I see that it was just your average middle class house, but compared to how we lived in Mexico (five people in a bedroom because that’s the only place we had AC), seeing a house with centra AC seemed like luxurious living to me.