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Originally Posted by bjones6416
I grew up the child of a blue-collar worker (railroad engineer) in Atlanta, so although we didn't have the Buckhead social experiences we also weren't playing barefoot on a dirt road. :-)
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This is kind of why I started this thread. The type of books on the whole that seem to capture our imagination, and make us think we know a place, usually have virtually no relation to 90% of the people that live in that place.
I know exactly zero people who have ever lived either the old upper class English life style (which still seems to be alive and well in todays 'Aga Sagas') or the drug fueled 24hr party life style, let alone cockney-geezer old-time villains.
While I love the iconic bits of the UK, London, red phone boxes (toilets), the Lake District, Cornwall, cheese-rolling etc, the place I feel most at home is in a nice pub, or walking down a suburban street. Ha, I've just bored myself senseless, no wonder no-one writes books about people like me!
