I'm really curious about the economy in my exoreality because by all accounts I should have been raised poor and I definitely wasn't.
My parents divorced when I was about 7 or 8, my dad got full custody not only because he's better and fought for me but because my mom straight-up did not want me and resented and ignored me whenever I visited too. My dad and I also kept the same two bedroom house, with my mom moving out and two towns over.
My dad worked at Bistro Huddy for my entire childhood, from before I was born until I was 25...
So a single dad in a two bedroom two bathroom house in LA working as a line cook and then executive chef, living comfortably. My parents bought the house together in 1985 [built in 1978] but my dad maintained it for, probably forever... our exomemories for BH-4 stop at 2018, so that's 33 years and counting yea?
Side note, my dad was 16 in 1985 so either my mom is a few years older and initially bought the house herself and then added my dad to the lease OR 16 is the legal age of consent in the US in BH-4, at least for some things, which actually would also match my exomemory of getting my first tattoo when I was 16... unless my dad got emancipated... and then here you can get a tattoo at 16 if you have state ID... I know high school went to 18 still but I've just realised that with the maths here. Anyway.
Single dad line cook/executive chef with that house in LA would totally have been doable here in 1985/1994+. That adds up just fine.
What doesn't add up is that I, alone, bought my own one bedroom house, in LA, in 2012 when I was 23, as a server of 3 years and OnlyFans star of 5 years. Maybe in some other parts of the country, but not in LA, not here.
And I did that easily! Plus I bought my dream car [a Mini Cooper hard top] brand new in 2015 at 25, also easily, and my dad bought me a car when I was 17 or 18 too [old and used but still!].
Not to mention that my dad also left Bistro Huddy and opened his own restaurant in 2014 or 2015, which also takes a lot of money.
And don't get me wrong, he had to save up for that, I had to save up for my car, I saved up for my house while I took my time looking [I didn't truly wanna move out away from my dad anyway], savings were necessary, we were not rich, but in this economy? Not possible.
I know that a lot of progressive politics were significantly better in BH-4...
I was openly queer in high school and, I honestly do not remember Any homophobia at all. The staff were rather sex negative but they didn't seem to care that I slept with other men, only that I slept with a different person every day and kept taking the free condoms from the front office.
I experienced ableism, particularly from the other people at Bistro Huddy [especially Nicole], but school wasn't traumatising for me being Autistic and Schizophrenic, even undiagnosed.
I also went through a Girl Phase when I was like 15 and my dad was great with that, and he was totally chill with me being queer, and he was absolutely amazing with all of my needs and differences as an undiagnosed neurodivergent kid.
Not that the political climate is the only reason for all of that, but either way the climate was much better in BH-4 than it is here.
So with all of that in mind, I wonder if the political climate is also more democratic in addition to more progressive, and therefore that the economy is better. Neither me nor my dad had super high paying jobs and yet we both were fully able to make necessary purchases like houses and cars that would not have been possible for specifically me given our jobs.
Just an interesting thing I've been chewing on, that my economy was better :] I think that's neat :]
