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lots of poor neighborhoods face same problem as this rich neighborhood.


i lived in princeton for a few months when i lived to america and i bought a house in a lower income area for awhile but i did the five minutes of research to make sure that particular street was still low crime, etc.

basically what happens in a poor area like that is that the houses cost so little that the people actually have a lot of money and act rich. and then they start thinking a certain way...

like for example this woman has a dog she got from the pound and gets aggressive and if you tell her the dog's making you aggressive which was her complaint about the neighbor's dog which wasn't making the neighbor aggressive, she still thinks she has the better dog with no reasoning. or this guy just has a car that he would have been happy with any car and the neighbor's rebuilding this custom car and he has this attitude why can't i have the best car.

and since they actually got a bunch of money if it becomes a dollars vs sense issue where you can't even discuss the actual product it would get worse.

what nathaniel had was a certain quality, a certain word i don't even know how to spell but it's something you'll rarely hear except maybe from martin lawrence or martin and frasier but not on cheers though, but maybe talking to niles. some radio show ish maybe in some ironic way but it's kind of that weird overlap word, it's called bouji. but i know that's the wrong spelling more phonetic and i don't know how to spell it right. but the guy like that is like nathaniel a snob but he knows why he likes what he likes. man it gets really really obnoxious when you got to get into these conversations and these guys want you to concede on things they don't even really care about. terrible attitude for culture and both rich and poor americans face these issues more often the more blessed middle class in this regard...

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Wow! Way to over-analyse a comedic trope...

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