Justin is a country club brat - canon/fandom?

[cowboystracker.livejournal.com]

I know a lot of fanfic states that Justin grew up in the country club set like Lindsay. But I don't remember that from the series, so is it canon or fandom? I remember Lindsay's parents as being quite wealthy so it makes sense that they would be country club members. But I never got that impression of Justin's family. It seemed they were more middle class or upper middle class. Now I know that doesn't mean they couldn't belong to a country club, but it just seems unlikely.

If it is canon, please let me know what episode. I need this for a fic I'm writing at the moment.

Thanks for any help. As always it is greatly appreciated.

ETA: It is canon. I completely forgot about Justin's conversation with Melanie at Michael's 30th b-day party in episode 111. The brief conversation is in the comments - thanks mander3_swish. And thanks to michele659, qaf_fanatic, and mysid for the help.

Comments

[mysid.livejournal.com]

You appear-- to me-- to be arguing whether the Taylors are "upper-middle class" (as I'm calling it) or "have money". To me, "upper-middle class" = "have money". They have enough money to have a large house with a pool (although I thought the pool was Daphne's house), to send their children to private school, for Jennifer to be a SAHM, and to not qualify for college need-based scholarships. All of those things would be true if they are upper-middle class. The category "upper-middle class" can actually go up pretty high in terms of income.

As for whether or not they belong to a country club, I have to say again, it all comes down to whether or not they play golf. There's no point in joining a golf club, which is what almost all country clubs are, if you don't play.

[vlredreign.livejournal.com]

No, I'm not. They have money, that's a given. They're upper middle class, that's a given. What I'm trying to tell you is that with all that, the most important thing to Craig is appearances. To keep up those appearances, he almost surely belongs to a country club. It's what people do.

Also, not everyone that plays golf belongs to a country club. I had bosses that played, and only one belonged to a country club. The others just went to the local courses to play.

[mysid.livejournal.com]

I know that not everyone who plays golf joins a country club-- public courses exist for a reason-- but I do think it's incredibly rare to join a country club if one doesn't play golf. Golf, not keeping up appearances, is the primary reason people join a country club. There are hundreds of ways to "keep up appearances" to choose from, and joining a country club is only one of them.