Realtors in Boise, Idaho are not nearly as "civilized"

[AlongCameJones]

as realtors in the San Fransisco Bay Area in California.

In 1981, my mother had done business with a realtor in the SF Bay Area named Joe Mandolfo. He was a handsome 45-year-old gentleman in a suit, tie and drove a clean 1976 Cadillac Seville to show his clients homes.

In 1999, I had a guy from John L. Scott Realty in Boise, ID show me homes. The real-estate company had a classy-sounding name but this man was not very classy in presentation. He had some crude rough-riding Jeep-like vehicle. He was not clean-shaven and dressed rather "blue collar". He spoke like a simpleton too. He was bald and sported a mustache and glasses. He was dressed like he was fit to operate a Caterpilllar tractor (sans hard hat) and not at all like a city-slicker like the Italian realtor in San Francisco, Mr. Mandolfo. I was not taken to a white-table cloth restaurant for lunch but rather a McDonald's in Nampa, ID. Having been spoiled rotten on the Left Coast most my life, it was a real culture shocker going into Boise. In the SF Bay Area, I also knew an insurance broker who drove a nice Mercedes Benz. Always well-dressed and clean-shaven.

Incidentally, slick-dressed Joe Mandolfo in the fancy automobile had told my mother he was once a truck driver earlier on in life. Is being a truck driver or a realtor a better prospect in life?


The moral of the story: Don't ever take your Bay Area mentality into any RED state.

Some short story, huh?

 

[Hawgman]

The roads run both ways.

 

[GlockPride]

Plenty of slick hucksters and plenty of honest, hard-working simpletons.

My dad taught me not to judge a person by how they dressed or what they drove.

 

[Aries]

You are big time into generalizations, aren't you....?

 

[radarmonkey]

Where are we going with this?

 

[xseler]

Here's my short story....

An apple sat on the railroad track
feeling blue and cross.
Around the bend
came red #10......
Toot, toot, applesauce!

Lots shorter --- basically same moral message.

 

[AlongCameJones]

You are big time into generalizations, aren't you....?

It's all about what we know and how we were raised. I live on a beer budget now but listen to classical music still.

Boise, ID is the largest city in that particular state. Still, it's hillbilly in culture as compared with even some smaller California coastal towns. Some people simply can no longer AFFORD to live where they were raised and that's particularly true with California other states near an OCEAN. Everybody in the human species wants to live near an ocean beach but few have the necessary wampum to do so. The "relatively" lower-cost-of-living places in America tend to be the $hitkicker ones. Californians and Californian-raised Americans like me have been displaced culturally, politically, socially and economically. I'm now too culturally polished and educated for my own bank account.

 

[Bocephus123]

Is everybody below you sounds like it.

 

[mr ed]

Is your name Barry O ?

 

[AlongCameJones]

Culturally speaking, I fit in the Plains States like a fart in a church. I mean a smelly rotten-egg fart in a small crowded non-air-conditioned church on a hot summer's Sunday morning. Economcally speaking, there is no better fit for me anywhere in the world except maybe for Mexico.