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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gatsby was new money. And there is some money on SI. New money, living in gaudy AF houses. It's mostly blue collar though. [/quote] My point is that at this point, the people that book was based on are old money. [/quote] Immigrants and those in the first and sometimes second generation like to show off a bit and the houses can get a little out of hand, remember the house in my big fat Greek wedding that looked like the Parthenon in the front but it was clearly a high ranch in the back? Drive around Howard Beach and you’ll see a lot of gold plated fu dogs on front steps even though the occupants are 100% Sicilian. They didn’t call the north shore the gold coast for nothing, from great neck to Lloyd Harbor there were something like 600 mansions constructed in the early 1900s, most of them have been demolished and subdivided but there is still some deep old pockets there. [/quote]
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