[function_seven]

Your refugee friends probably didn't fit this intro to bracket one:

> You grew up in one of these five counties: Marin, Santa Clara, Orange, Loudoun or Westchester. You went to a private high school that cost $40,000 a year to attend, yet when you mention it, you emphasize that it “almost bankrupted your parents,” one of whom is an engineer, and the other of whom is a clinical psychologist who has written two best-selling self-help books.

Obviously this piece is not a comprehensive list of all classes of people in the Bay Area. Just 3 common tropes.

[usaar333]

As it is satirical, it tends to narrowly bucket people.

Bracket one broadly is intended to apply to many if not most upper middle class professionals, including ones who went to top public schools. Some just happen to enter the circle later in life (their 20s rather than at birth).

[zeckalpha]

Those who enter later in life may not ever quite feel at home.