How common is it for middle class and rich people to befriend each other?

[BigBlueEyes343]

To befriend each other based on common interests and a similar personality?

[BeMuse]

It's extremely common for people that live relatively near to one another to befriend each other. Your kids go to the same schools. Your shop at the same grocery stores. You fill up your gas tank at the same stations and so on. Pretty much anywhere rich people live, you have middle class people that live within a mile of them. The middle class do their bookkeeping, legal work, are their doctors and nurses, their kids school teachers, and so on. When they go to the beach they run into each other. When they attend their children's sports games they sit together in the bleachers and cheer on the home team.

[ZXCwWRQWz]

Not sure about middle class but I'm from the streets and lots of rich people love me. They show me oysters and champagne and I show them the McD's dollar menu.

[ZXCwWRQWz]

What you do as a black man like me is you put on glasses and a suit and speak proper English. Then white people love that shit. They start buying you everything. You can even not know anything; they wanna teach us everything.

[BigBlueEyes343]

What country are you from? 😊

[BigBlueEyes343]

I’ll have to try that sometime 😉

[ZXCwWRQWz]

I'm from the blackest of the blackest, the deepest origins of mankind, I was born of the seed of black Adam, to be feared by his enemies and loved by his friends, the Ugandanest of the Udagan, with ancestry that befriended Kunta Kinte, but technically from South Carolina.

[BigBlueEyes343]

Cool 😊. Well, you sound very articulate, so I’m sure you do much better now, or if not yet, then you will. I myself am poor.

[ZXCwWRQWz]

Not really, my bad. I'm actually from Japan. But I think Japanese can be black too. Everyone can be black if they feel it in their heart. Men can even get pregnant these days. I'm the blackest motherfucker up in here! Black power!

[BigBlueEyes343]

😊👍

[ZXCwWRQWz]

I love poor people! My favorite are the artistic kinds. Struggling artists and musicians and people of this sort. Reminds me of living on the streets.

[potahto11]

I don’t think it happens much, especially not middle-class people befriending millionaires and billionaires. However, I am middle class, and one of my friends is pretty rich compared to me, like she has a huge house and all the latest gadgets, branded clothes, etc. She is also a very sweet and humble person which is why I’m friends with her. We met because we go to the same school (she doesn’t go to private school because she wants a ‘public school experience’ lol) I think it’s a bit common if you go to the same classes as them and have the same interests

[LaFemmeFatale_1]

One of my friends here is a millionaire, I am not.

We are friends, when she visits, sometimes I pay for dinners, sometimes she does.

The key is - treat her like you treat all of your friends and don’t expect that just because she is a millionaire she’s somehow obliged to help you. Her richness or the lack of money is none of your business, you befriend a human not her status or money.

[TheSpaceGnome]

Most people only befriend people who share common interests and similar personality. Financial status isn't a factor outside of it paying for the hobbies and interests you have, so that would be the only reason classes are more likely to befriend their own more often.

[annabananna]

It happens a lot more often than lower and upper class. Sometimes the upper class can be paranoid someone with little money will want something out of them. It can also be easier if two rich people are together and they want to do something expensive it’s not a big deal. However if anyone has stuff in common and comparable personalities they will gravitate towards each other no matter the class bracket.

[nolabels]

I know many people who intermingle among economic classes, but I'm not one of them.

From what I've heard, they're usually mutually beneficial relationships.

[itsalyssaagain]

I’m middle class and I’ve never befriended a “rich” person. There’s nothing in common lol. I feel like it only happens in movies.

[Anonymous]

Uncommon, I'm lower than middle class and have rich friends who started at the bottom but they often avoid getting close to middle class people because they have little if any drive to deal with the struggle

[Pudsmucker]

Just quite common if you have common interests. It might be golf, hunting and fishing. Similar sports.

[Nikki1989]

It is very common.

[LiamJHayden]

Pretty common.

[MannMitAntworten]

Common where I am.

[Anonymous]

It happens

[In_Trance]

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