re: Can someone be poor and not trashy?

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Is this a real question?

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real question.

hard to believe someone who drives a 1992 ford taurus with peeling paint and lives in a shack with asbestos shingle siding is not trashy though.

One instance I can think of is a black dude that lives on the fringes of a poor part of town. Shotgun house with rotting siding. But the guy manages to keep a fresh coat of white paint on it, the yard is tidy with a garden and the front porch has well watered potted ferns. In the hands of most people that live in that neighborhood, that house would look like a dump. I like that black guy.