Poor is the new rich

Check out this interesting feature from today's Duluth News Tribune profiling people who choose to live at the poverty line in northern Minnesota. Anecdotally, I can say there are LOTS of people like this up here, often living below the radar. The fact that you can do this is a testament to the greatness of northern Minnesota and the Iron Range and the reason why people still live here after being pounded by bad economic period after bad economic period. I have a few relatives and friends doing this right now. My sister moved to Grand Marais with nothing but a tent. I don't even think it was her tent (she was sharing it). That's just how things roll up there.

I still likes me house and car, though. Thus, back to work!