Yes, definitely, but it’s weird here because our towns are just so extremely small.

Where I grew up in Maine, there were 12 kids in my school class. Three of them were ridiculously wealthy. Palatial homes on the lake. Got their own airplanes for birthday presents as soon as they were old enough to fly (you could get a pilot’s license at 14 at the time, younger than a driver’s license). Another 6 kids were dirt poor. The rest were kids whose parents taught at the school- pretty much the only middle class in town.

As you can imagine, this is crazy wealth inequality. Weird as hell. And yet, there were so few of us that class didn’t have much to do with who your friends were as kids. If you wanted to have friends at all, you had to look past it. There was only one school for all of us.

In adult life, that changed though. The rich kids ran off to be airline pilots or whatever, never to be seen again for the most part. The poor kids either stayed where they were and got blue collar jobs, or got priced out of their homes and moved to the nearest affordable town and got blue collar jobs, but more or less stayed there and retained some semblance of community.