Around here, people live in poverty but feel they need designer clothes, fast cars, new phones, Xboxes...
I live in a good house that we own. We have a Ford truck that gets good gas mileage, not a looker, but has seats and a steering wheel and that's what counts.
The latest game system I own is a Playstation 2. Actually I have five of them, but I collect them from Goodwill.
My iPad? A school system issued one.
TV? 35 year old RCA tube TV, works like brand new.
I have never owned a cell phone.
We pay our taxes.
We have no credit cards, never overdraw bank accounts more than a couple bucks.
Other people go to Bangor (a little while away from the coast, a bigger city) every week, buy expensive clothes.
Own expensive gas-hogging cars, and everyone including their seven-year-old has an iPhone.
Own newest game systems with games they don't even play, huge flatscreen TV, sometimes one per room.
They have multiple mortgages, overdrawn bank accounts, unpaid taxes, bulging wallets filled with credit cards and not much else.
And they live in a beat-up doublewide trailer.
Needless to say I'm much more happy with MY life.