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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 24305, member: 57463&quot;]Hey, I don&#039;t mean to drift this thread, but you have no idea ...&nbsp; It is true that I have taught in college, but I have no degrees, so I am not a professor by any stretch. </p><p><br /></p><p>I live in Northern Michigan.&nbsp; It ain&#039;t De-troit City.&nbsp; Last year at this time, I was in a real estate licensing class and the instructor was painting a picture of a difficult selling situation. She said, &quot;You want to show a $300,000 home and you look over the hill and there&#039;s a back yard full of rusted cars.&quot;&nbsp; I wanted to say, &quot;Hey! That&#039;s my place!&quot;&nbsp; I mean it is not. We don&#039;t have the rusted cars or dogs under the porch or anything, but there is no law of nature that says that people in rundown old shacks can&#039;t read books.&nbsp; It&#039;s mostly quiet out here except for the gunshots from the hunting club up the road.&nbsp; We have a lot of space.&nbsp; We have our own hill for sledding.&nbsp; The land behind us has never been cleared as far as I can tell.&nbsp; This is my wife&#039;s territory, actually.&nbsp; I grew up in Cleveland.&nbsp; My wife said something about her aunt and uncle being &quot;farmers&quot; and I said that they are not agriculturalists at all but only hunter-gathers with a permanent campsite.&nbsp; Is that redneck enough for you, cousin?&nbsp; I confess that I would rather log in and chat with you about coins than to go up the road to watch football with the real rednecks, but that&#039;s another matter entirely.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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