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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live in a rich enclave in the south (~$3M average home value) and expensive cars are the norm. Cars in the range of $200k+ for the adults and $100k+ for the kids aren’t the average but they are common. No one is driving around in a beater Honda. My husband is in finance and all the guys he works with (old and new money alike) constantly talk about cars and buy new cars.
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Oh yeah, well, the South has a big car culture. You have to drive a lot. [/quote]

Plus the South is gaudy, tacky and showy and that includes the wealthy.  We were just down South and I couldn’t believe how many men and women had on cowboy hats in a nice restaurant.  Are they not taught etiquette down there?  [/quote]

I’m in Texas and the only time I really see people in cowboy hats are high school and college kids who sometimes wear them with boots to dances.

I’ve lived all over the country and Texas is the only place I’ve been where lots of restaurants have a “no hat’” policy.

I also don’t think the people here are any tackier than in DC. [b]I do think the wealthy people here tend to enjoy having money a lot more than you’d see in DC—nice clothes, cars, watches, jewelry, going out, taking vacations, etc.[/b][/quote]

That's just Dallas. In Texas both the wealthy and the poor drive $80k pickup trucks. [/quote]

Naw, Houston as well.  BTDT.[/quote]

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