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Originally Posted by JosephM
Mabey I'm just baised because you guys are in beautiful Napa, but here in Richmond we have kids who can't even pay $100 for part of the bus trip, let alone $370. Even a certain rich school that has a team near us is having trouble getting people to plop down $50 up front, and last year each kid had to pay their way to Champs.
I don't want to argue, but instead open you eyes a bit, if ya know what I mean....
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That post really set me off when I saw it earlier tonight, but I didn’t immediately respond. Even now I don’t really know what to say, but here goes…
Wow. One assumption after on CD another today?
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...threadid=31472
<sarcasm>What is it, "everyone spout out nonsensical, offensive, judgmental statements" day?</sarcasm>
Just because people live in California, or a certain part of California that’s famous doesn’t mean that they’re swimming around in more cash than they know what to do with. Here in California the cost of living is sky high, and jobs are being lost left and right (and replaced with low paying part-time jobs) due to the stagnant economy, the outsourcing of jobs, and reorganization of corporate assets. There is also a high bankruptcy rate in our area. I should know, since my parents and many friends of mine are debtors’ attorneys in the Silicon Valley. There are quite a few teams in California whose students can’t afford to travel with their team to events; it’s not a situation that’s removed from our state. My old team, The Sea Dawgs’, students couldn’t afford to travel to Sacramento (just 2h away from San Jose), and even if I drove the kids and we split 2 hotel rooms. Luckily (depending on how you look at the situation), we didn’t really have this problem since we couldn’t muster the funds to register for a second event in 2003 or 2004. We were a team in San Jose, the heart of the Silicon Valley, and we couldn’t come up with those funds as individuals or as a team, and we sure as heck weren’t the only ones with that problem.
So, I would definitely say it’s because you’re biased that you would tell someone from Napa (which has the same economic troubles as the Silicon Valley) to open their eyes to the economic strife of another area. Yes, parts of Napa are beautiful, just like parts of Virginia are beautiful, but that really doesn’t reflect the economic cross-section of those areas. I was offended by that comment, and I, personally, think you should apologize for it.
-Bill Gold