Well, after all, he “knows people”. That makes him an expert.
*Snicker*
I’ll be damned if I can see why living in a city, too damned dumb to unstop a toilet, makes these people feel superior.
In my decades as a hardware salesman and small engine technician, the one thing that impressed me most about N.E. urban transplants was their total lack of knowledge, beyond whatever little niche they actually had experience in.
How they can be condescending to folks who actually know, and do things, is beyond me.