Submitted by Ferry Rider, Jul 18, 2007 10:19

I have a good job and have chosen to live on Staten Island. I own my home, which is within walking distance to the Ferry. Because living expenses are less on SI, I am able to travel extensively, attend Broadway premieres and save quite a bit for retirement. Did these posters know that SI has the highest percentage of college graduates of any of the 5 boroughs? When you live in an "outer borough" , you experience true class diversity; my neighbors include not only professors, artists, lawyers, & stock brokers--but bus drivers, social workers, police officers, firemen and construction workers. Manhattanites generally have disdain for anyone outside their slender island and socio-economic status. They are small time aristocrats who hate the common man-- that is, until they need them.....

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