tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166090.post7215349748719422110..comments2024-02-17T07:59:18.705-08:00Comments on Grad Student Madness: Ghost TownRufushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17762279210783841414noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166090.post-21186231437522171662008-10-03T19:56:00.000-07:002008-10-03T19:56:00.000-07:00It's possible. I'm actually thinking of Buffalo, w...It's possible. I'm actually thinking of Buffalo, where they've had a fairly high unemployment rate since the steel industry left. The cliche is that everyone calls it a "dying city" because of the economy and declining population. It could definitely be an exaggeration though. But I also don't know anybody there who works a white collar job. I guess technically I do, but not really.<BR/><BR/>Then again, Claire's father does a <I>lot</I> of people's finances, and he tends to cringe every time we pass a Hummer on the road because he claims that most of their drivers are in debt up to their eyeballs. And again I think debt is just a lot more accepted than it used to be. <BR/><BR/>What you'll find is though is that the people who really do make a lot of money tend not to drive the flashier cars. Our in-laws are multimillionaires (sorry to say that, but it's true) but you'd never know it from their clothes, house, cars, or anything really. So I'm skeptical when I see people in fancy cars or flashy clothes.Rufushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17762279210783841414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166090.post-52275819284027416492008-10-03T19:10:00.000-07:002008-10-03T19:10:00.000-07:00It's funny: we live in a blue collar Canadian town...<I>It's funny: we live in a blue collar Canadian town where everyone drives cheap cars or takes the bus. Every week I drive into an economically-depressed blue collar American town where everyone drives Hummers, SUVs, or luxury cars, and nobody takes the bus. I have to wonder what's going on here?</I><BR/><BR/>I don't know exactly what town you're talking about but ... is it possible that the places is not as bad as all that? If a lotta people are driving Hummers it's possible they're not doing so bad ...Brian Dunbarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12952894032434503816noreply@blogger.com