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Old 06-30-2009, 06:28 PM
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Originally Posted by GREENBACK View Post
Growing up in a lower class neighborhood there are basic norms that people adhere to. If everyone around you is not striving for more than young people tend to follow this lead. I'm sure the opposite attitude prevails in more affluent neighborhoods. When people talk about the "cycle" of poverty it is such a true statement.
Exactly my point. Exactly why I would rather be the poorest in a middle class neighborhood than the richest in a poor neighborhood. When I lived in the city, they neighbors had a bad attitude about certain things. Now that I live outside the city in a semi rural area I am around people whose attitude is better and I am learning things from them.
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