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Living where you live now you probably figured out that the old money people walk around in jeans and t shirts and drive old decrepit pickup trucks.
All the new bling crowd are just targets.
LOLZ Musash'!
Yeah the "old money" drive their old trucks and wear Dickies overalls, it's true. There are actually Priuses out here, it's hilarious! And blingin' rims are not unknown, nor are X5's.
But, since most of that "wealth" is a put-on, it won't stay away from the repo man long, my Prius sure didn't.
There's a sort of "look" around here..... jeans, about 1/2" - 1" of beard, ciggie or Skoal in mouth, lined face, sort of "kicked from pillar to post" expression. Look on kids = hungry.
Actually most of the people around here look pretty healthy and are damned NICE its' just amazing. Ate a very good b'fast burrito cooked at a small lunch truck yesterday, how nice it was to speak in English with a fellow American running her little lunch truck, lunch trailer really lol.
There are jobs here, stone mason, carpenter, stuff like that. And working with horses. Good jobs really, but you have to be reality-based. Not much future in pushing buttons.
Wise words from the depths of your cave, Miyamoto.
Sitting here with a small stack of brass $1 coins, and contemplating.