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Sounds to me like a family that is living a life of low-stress contentment, supporting themselves by their own wits, and daring to make their own choices of lifestyle. No doubt their children are learning to do the same, and don't need daddy's money to enroll at the state university. I'll bet neither of the parents are on any medical prescriptions and their kids have no learning disabilities.
(In my apartment building, there are college kids who don't even know who or where their parents are, and somehow they are getting a college education. Not saving for kids education is not the same a throwing them off a cliff.)
Also very rural american to be sitting in a house and have 18 vehicles/boats sitting around in some condition or another!
So much for leaving a legacy for your family or bettering the younger generation when you don't bother planning for your own future, and then expect your children to use their earnings to foot your bill as opposed to doing something for themselves.
They're too busy enjoying their lives now to worry about the future.
Maybe they count on Anna on being a stay-at-home-mom too or getting an academic scholarship.
Isn't it amazing, how many people, raging at the ratrace from their gridlocked car ten hours a week, with their kids eating Twinkies in front of a daycare TV, can think of so many ways to express such bitter contempt for those they secretly envy.
Self employment and a SAHM, with land, a fairly big, newer house and all those toys??? Not possible where I live, and I live in a state few here would choose to live in.
Sounds like GM workers in Michigan, they earn enough money to do that. There are lots of baby boomer GM workers that you just described to detail. Problem here is though you have to be a baby boomer to have that kind of privlaged life. Good GM jobs are not available to younger generations here (most GM plants are 57+ now).
Alabama has IMO the very best people in the country.
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