> But I did experience classism from my friends and family: there is status living in a world-class city.
Can you go more into depth on that because I've never seen that and some of my extended family lives in small cities/farms in the midwest. If anything, they laugh because I pay $300 a month for parking. Then again, maybe chicago/seattle/san francisco aren't status bearing world class cities.
Many people treat their city as the center of the world. NYC is infamous for this. "Flyover states" is a common pejorative classist term. Every tech company sets up offices in large cities not just for the talent, but because people want to live in the city, not in the "boonies" or "in the sticks" with a bunch of "townies."
Can you go more into depth on that because I've never seen that and some of my extended family lives in small cities/farms in the midwest. If anything, they laugh because I pay $300 a month for parking. Then again, maybe chicago/seattle/san francisco aren't status bearing world class cities.