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Exactly. If you like Westchester so frigging much, do us a favor and stay there.
These people weren't even from Westchester. I don't think they would have survived Westchester, real upper class people would have chewed them up and spit them out like leftover coffee grinds. They certainly didn't survive in the rural county, either, most of them ran back to the suburbs of the small city near there.
When my husband and I bought our new property which is unabashedly rural, we went to look at it one Sunday. The neighbor next door whom is a native (and country person through and through) drove past, slowed down, and took a good look at us. My husband and I likely looked like yuppies- young, white, decently dressed, obviously not from around there (everyone knows everyone there). And in some ways, my husband and I *are* yuppies- we are well educated, have good white-collared jobs, and have considerably increased our class standing in life compared to our parents (myself moreso than my husband).
The neighbor then pulled into his driveway, went into his backyard, and emptied a shotgun into a target. Bang, bang, bang.
Obviously trying to scare us away if hearing shots fired would do that. Never has happened since and I work there a couple days a week.
The real estate agent asked if it bothered me. I turned to her and said, "Do you think any idiot is going to break into our house with a neighbor that shoots like that?"