Originally a facebook note from Monday, February 22, 2010 at 2:04am
Over the years, I've observed the same thing in Beachwood (and other similar areas). The people wearing fur coats and carrying Prada bags, the so-called "rich people," are the most angry and unhappy people I've ever seen in my life. They're always in a rush, always laying on their horns in the parking lot, always talking about trivial nonsense on their cell phones, yelling at their waitresses, etc.
Legacy Village, home to many jerks and terrible traffic patterns.
Cedar Road, which runs right in front of Beachwood Place and Legacy Village, has to be the unhappiest road in North East Ohio. I don't like to make left turns around there; I'm always scared some soccer-mom wearing oversized sunglasses and on the cell phone with her plastic surgeon is gonna fly through an intersection because she's late to her tanning appointment, and t-bone me with her Lexus SUV. It also seems like they are completely unable to function with anyone else who isn't as rich and angry as themselves.
If being rich tuns you into a total douche-bag incapable of dealing with anyone that makes less money than you (and also seems to make you vote for idiots-- I've used election data and matched it up with other data like income per capita, from households, to towns, to counties, and seen how there's a definite correlation between the two), I'd rather live on welfare. Even though I think the welfare system in place right now is so screwed up! I'm serious. I'd never trade in my happiness for money.
Note: I realize that not all rich people act this way, and are perfectly integrated into the rest of society. I also know some cool people from Beachwood. CALM DOWN!
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