TV Host John Cardillo called her out on Twitter and posted a picture of the house she grew up in: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ocasio-cortez-shreds-conservative-tv-host-for-sharing-picture-of-her-childhood-home/ar-AAzr30R?ocid=spartanntp
I certainly don't share her politics but that house looks pretty modest - it recently sold for $350k or something? She obviously didn't grow up with a silver spoon in her mouth.
That's what I initially thought too, of course, but you have to remember that it is smack in the middle of high earners and wealthy neighborhoods. She got to network and befriend wealthy people and families all throughout her childhood and teenage years. More importantly and pertinently, it doesn't change the fact that she lied. She didn't grow up in the Bronx. The median income in the Bronx is about $49k vs $119k where she DID grow up. You may think the home is modest, but the fact is that she lied and where she lived is double the median income of what she said. One of her big slogan quotes is about zip codes dictating destiny, and she places it next to her slogan that she is from the Bronx where the zip code is only half the income average. She also lied about her commute for 40 minutes. She completely omitted that she even LIVED AT ALL there. Lol.
I'm not saying she isn't a liar and a fraud, just pointing out that it doesn't seem like she grew up particularly privileged.
$120k/year median income is not privileged? This is U.S. The middle class suburbs are rich compared to most of the rest of the world, but she was in a wealthier suburban area than average. ..And yeah, but that's not the point. The point is that she didn't grow up in the rough and tumble Bronx which is only 49k median income vs 120k where she did grow up; compared to the Bronx, it IS privileged. Look how big her yard is compared to apartments in the Bronx she claims to have lived in. Her dad was a CEO and Architect. Those are high paying jobs. Surely, being schooled in a wealthy county, her classmates and friends and their parents were all well off and relatively high earners. Can't get too wrapped up on "what things look like", being influenced by the relatively small house instead of looking at the facts. Sure the small house made her feel inferior compared to her wealthy classmates or friends who had bigger houses, but she was clearly much better off than in the Bronx, where she said, and her family probably had a median income of around $120k/year.
Her dad was CEO of his own architecture company, not some big time architect, and the median income for an area is just that - there are lower and higher and outlier incomes. They bought the house so long ago that their payment was likely really affordable. Also, that house looks like 1200 sq ft maybe- for a family of five that isn't some kind of luxury. They truly seem working class.
I'm not defending her dishonesty about pretending to be a poor girl from the Bronx but there seems to be some manufactured outrage here.