I guess the folks I know are like that too, and they’d probably bristle at me calling them hoity-toity. But I’m just a Southern gal who’s seen a much different life than a lot of folks. Atlanta was my first venture into a cultural world. It was a good education for me, and I appreciate what I got to see and do, but honestly, I can live just fine without all the accoutrements of a well heeled society. Except I do enjoy fine dining on occasion.
I now live back in the city in Florida that I grew up in. The old patch is more prosperous, more densly populated, and with almost all ordinary people enjoying a better life than they would have had fifty years ago. And I would feel deprived without a smartphone, PC, internet access, cable TV, and a large flat screen TV — things that were near science fiction when I was a boy.