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We’re A Middle-Class Family. We Can’t Afford To Go On Vacation — And We’re Not The Only Ones.
“It has become a monthly tightrope walk to keep our home and feed our children. Vacations, once a sure thing for families like mine, are a fantasy for us.”
When I was a kid, my family took vacations to California, Florida and Tennessee. The first time I stepped on an airplane, I was 8 years old and accompanied by a Cabbage Patch Kid named Erna Janine. It was 1983.
The grandparents who raised me were solidly middle-class. My grandmother was an administrative assistant to the head honcho at an aviation and electronics corporation. My grandfather had an equally boring job at Raytheon handling import/export. He was a lifer there, with a clock or watch waiting for him after 35 years of service. He smoked too much on flights to Egypt and Holland, bringing home wonders from a world I only knew from textbooks and postcards. We lived in a two-family home that my grandparents owned in a city 20 minutes outside of Boston.
