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On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 00:01:25 -0500, "Bluegenie2" <me@fuil.com> wrote:
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><barbara@bookpro.com> wrote in message
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>> On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 21:07:42 GMT, Katiya
>> <katiyaNO@SPAMhotmail.THANKScom> wrote:
>>
>> >Seahag wrote:
>> >> Boy you got that right...my BIL just got 30 days notice yesterday...his
>> >> apartments are going way upscale condo. I don't know how much longer
>we're
>> >> going to be able to afford our slip either. Seems like this whole town
>is
>> >> going to the "special" people:^(
>> >
>> >Boy have you guys got me curious now
Who are these "special" people?
>>
>> People who feel a sense of entitlement because of their money. People
>> who move to a waterfront town because of its charm and then proceed to
>> homogenize the charm out of it. For instance, watermen (the men who
>> get up before dawn in all weathers to do the difficult manual labor of
>> harvestomg oysters, crabs, and clams from the Chesapeake Bay) have
>> traditionally kept stacks of crab pots in their yards and sold their
>> catch from their homes to other people in town. But some "special"
>> person thought the crab pots were too low-class or something, and got
>> the county involved because her waterman neighbro didn't have a
>> license to sell his catch from his kitchen. The county couldn't
>> ignore it because of various laws. They were able to work something
>> out for him and the other watermen, but it's not quite the same as it
>> was, and that kind of thing is just happening more often.
>>
>> Another example--people buy houses near a small mom-and-pop airport
>> that has been there for decades and then get wacked out because of
>> small planes flying over, which they perceive as annoying and
>> dangerous. Well, don't buy a house near an airport then!
>>
>> And that kind of thing. (I said don't get me started!)
>>
>> BW
>
>This is not to say that there are not any decent people who happen to have
>wealth too, at least I think BW would agree
It's the ones that abuse
>their wealth and use it against others for their own concerns. A lot of
>the 'ME' people, but of course not all of them
I absolutely agree. And I'm sure that some (but again, not all) of
the poor folk would act just as badly if they had the money.
I also know some perfectly nice people who grew up with money who have
some of that entitlement attitude but don't realize that they do
because they have never lived any other way. It's all in how they
handle it--whether they treat people with less money as equals or not.
BW
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