# What is Taylor Swift's Socioeconomic Background? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 23, 2018, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-taylor-swifts-socioeconomic-background/811073 "2018-03-23T14:47:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cjackson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a3d4f5/32.png) [@cjackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjackson)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2018, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-taylor-swifts-socioeconomic-background/811073/1 "2018-03-23T14:47:49Z")
If she never became famous, how well off would she be today? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2018, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-taylor-swifts-socioeconomic-background/811073/2 "2018-03-23T15:07:29Z")
[Her father was a financial advisor; her mother worked in marketing at a mutual fund before leaving that job to be a homemaker.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Swift#1989%E2%80%932003:_Early_life) She attended both private and public schools. The family relocated to Nashville when she was 14, so she could pursue a career in music, though that entailed her father getting a job in Nashville with Merrill Lynch. So, my guess would be that they were solidly middle-class, to upper-middle-class, but probably not “rich.” If she hadn’t made it in the music business, it’s impossible to say what she’d be doing today (or how well-off she’d be today), since she’s been pursuing that career since she was a teenager. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2018, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-taylor-swifts-socioeconomic-background/811073/3 "2018-03-23T15:08:21Z")
It looks like her family was “comfortable.” Here’s her [childhood home in Pennsylvania](https://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/79903615.html) (the family actually rented that house while Taylor went to private school.) When she was a teenager and wanted to go to Nashville to pursue her career, her father managed get transfered there. He sold the family’s $2.4 million “vacation house” in New Jersey and bought a nice house in a not-fabulously-rich Nashville suburb. If she weren’t famous, she’d be working for a living. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2018, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-taylor-swifts-socioeconomic-background/811073/4 "2018-03-23T15:17:54Z")
I heard that she was a careless man’s careful daughter. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2018, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-taylor-swifts-socioeconomic-background/811073/5 "2018-03-23T16:41:22Z")
She definitely has musical ability. She probably would be teaching music, and singing on the weekends at joints and dives. ( unless Romeo actually showed up) ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2018, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-taylor-swifts-socioeconomic-background/811073/6 "2018-03-23T16:52:15Z")
Since this is a non-factual question about a celebrity, let’s move it to Cafe Society. Colibri General Questions Moderator