Hey, it's Anna. So one way that life continues to be strange is how looking at headlines about how the economy is going can lead you to wildly different conclusions.

Like, are you noticing the price of things going up, like your rent and grocery bills? Or are you feeling buoyed by the low unemployment rate?

More generally, are you feeling stable? Are you moving up? Are you falling behind? Class is one word we use to describe that idea of how our identities overlap with how much money we've got access to. Back in 2018, we did a big series about how you notice and describe where you fall when it comes to class.

We called the series Opportunity Costs. We made it with BuzzFeed News and explored how class, of course, is not just about money. There's also your racial background and access to generational wealth,

or your access to health care, as we explored with two friends divided by the fertility treatments they could and could not afford, and also access to good fortune, as we heard in a conversation

between a South Asian American immigrant father and his son

talking together about the wealth in their family and the American dream.

And then there is our romantic relationships.

In the episode we're sharing today, you'll meet a woman who fell down the class ladder after a divorce and felt that loss, yet also was aware how

relatively well-off she was. You can find all of the stories in our series about class at the

link in our show notes. It's really worth checking out. Here's our show. I always thought I was

the smart one. And hindsight is 2020, but from where I sit now and how I have to economize,

I just kind of shake my head at the amount of money I wasted.

This is Death, Sex, and Money.

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot... This is Death, Sex, and Money.

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot and need to talk about more.

I'm on a sale.

Six years ago, Jamie Seton moved back to the U.S. after spending several years in Asia with her husband and two kids.

They decided to settle in New Hampshire, where Jamie grew up.

And they bought a place near Dartmouth College.

Out in the country, 5,000 square foot house on like three acres. Five thousand. That's a big

house. I had three living rooms. Before their family moved back to the U.S., Jamie had worked on and off

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