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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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. 
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That’s very specific to cultural background.  A house like that might belong to an Italian or Greek family.  An Irish family would never have an ostentatious front of the house or decor.   [/quote]
Well there is the Hickey carting family (Irish) who caused quite a stir with the gold painted garbage cans on their driveway entry piers.[/quote]

They had to be an outlier. ZERO of the Irish families I knew who “made good” had the lions at the end at the end driveway etc.

What I loved/hates about growing up in NY was we were all a generation or two away from a history in which people took serious risks to come to the US. That has major downstream effects…good & bad [/quote]

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