Chris Collins reflects on growing up middle-class with parents who went into debt installing a pool to keep him and his friends home, away from neighborhood gang activity. He notes the household lacked strong financial education, and the pool became a symbol of their parenting choices during his teenage years.
Well, you didn't grow up poor. You're middle class, right? Yeah, middle class. But I, you know, I would say we didn't have any great financial training or financial example. My parents would take good care of us and things like that. But, you know, probably the best example I would give is when we were teenagers, they decided that they would go into a lot of debt to put a pool in. But their reasoning is, I'd rather have you and all your friends at our house knowing you're all having a great time, than just out somewhere else because they were worried he might become a Crip or a Blood or something.
Whatever the Canadian version of that is.
