Would you date below your own socio-economic status?

Would you date / have a relationship with someone who had less money than you / lived in a poorer area / or a less prestigeous occupation?

State your resons why or why not...

 

ummm.... you mean the homeless?

 

no... I just mean someone less well off than yourself

 

mmmm... trailer park girls.

 

if that was the case, I simply end up a spinster because alas no one is more upper class than I, Sir Reginald Rockefeller III

 

I meant it as a joke... guess I should add a smiley...

 

oh okay... lol!

 

it better be okay, if not I'd whoop your ass

 

well it depends...Are they less well off because they don't want wealth? or because they don't work? or because they are lazy?

I would rather date an impoverished hard working man than a rich and lazy one.

 

I don't think someone can be less well off than me, but if I met a nice girl who was worse off than me, sure...I'd date her. Why not?

Love knows no boundaries.

 

yes; i have relationships with people whom i love, not their money.

 

I would date someone below my own socio-economic level. It seems that I'm pretty low on the ladder myself anyway.

However, I do not care to date someone above my own socio-economic level. I've done it before and it didn't work out well. Seemed we came from such different sides of the tracks, it was hard to relate to one another. I dated a guy who was a physician and had friends who were dermatologists, TV personalities, Journalists, Chiropractors, etc... I had nothing in common with them. Here, I walk in with my thrift shop clothes and barefeet (by choice...I could dress a bit better, but why should i be something Im not?)...and I have nothing to say to these people. I don't know what it's like to have that kind of money and social life. I DO, however, know what it's like to come from nothing...so it makes it easier to relate to those people...

 

I feel the same way about the dating above. I don't think I would have anything to say to those people. What would you talk about?

 

here here. Well, depends on the personality of the rich lazy person. If it was true laziness, they just sat around in their wealth, that would suck. If they did charities and a bunch of stuff like that, without having a job per se, I'd consider it.

But definately I'd date someone of a different socio-economic status. I'm pretty low on the rungs myself, so I'd be hard pressed to find someone who makes less than me and has a job/some income. The only person I'd truly be worried about is dating someone without a home... not because it's wrong, but because the streets here are quite dangerous and I'd worry for them way too much.

 

so would you say its got more t do with motivation... if someone had less motivation than you, would it make a differenct to the relationship?

 

less motivation? Yup. I don't mean small differences. Someone who's satisfied working at McD's for the rest of his life isn't my cup of tea. There's such a thing as too motivated too, where you start judging others or work too hard to have time for a real relationship. I can be friends with either one, but dating someone with extreme motivation differences is difficult in my mind.

 

Prolly.

I also have problems w/Folks who's 'shit don't stink' in Relationships as well as in general...

 

All of the girls I dated were of a lower social class than me, and it proved problematic.

The parents were less educated and not academics like my parents, so it was hard to communicate and stand thier idioticy.

The girls themselves were nice but were lacking in culture and book smarts.

I do not see class as an economic issue, I see it as a social one... and I do not think that I will ever try to date under my social class again.

 

This isn't very nice...

but it's true.

 

of course I would date some that has less then me. To me that doesn't matter. As long as I had feelings for them and they had feelings for me. It doesn't matter if they have less or more then me.