LizzieMaine
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We're actually talking about two completely different things here, and you know that as well as I do. I'm talking about interpersonal relationships on the neighborhood level. I've said that I didn't live in a neighborhood driven by competitive pressures, and I meant exactly that: we *didn't care* about all that stereotypical one-upsmanship. The people I grew up around worked blue-collar jobs, drove old cars, lived in old houses furnished with old furniture, wore the same kind of clothes, ate the same kind of food, and *we were perfectly fine with that,* because *that's the way we'd always lived.* And I think, to bring this back to the main point of this thread, that that environment tended to help us to get along better with each other and to be more courteous and understanding of others in our daily dealings.
Unless you somehow know more about my life than I do, I don't see what's so unclear about that. Vas you dere, Sharlie?
Unless you somehow know more about my life than I do, I don't see what's so unclear about that. Vas you dere, Sharlie?