Couple dramatically reduces their carbon foot print..

[terry]

They stop all their evil "consumin".  DU loves this story right. This couple is doing everything DU says the rich should do.

Liberal_in_LA  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Feb-26-09 03:51 PM
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From Beverly Hills to shoveling manure on a farm (Laid off 100K insurance worker)
   
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Edited on Thu Feb-26-09 03:53 PM by Liberal_in_LA
http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/02/26/economy.survivor.f...

Story Highlights
Leah Bird and Ed Wright have have traded their Beverly Hills life for a trailer on a farm

Wright, who once made $100,000 a year, was laid off from an insurance firm

They feed animals, clean manure and fix the landscape

"I feel like a fish out of water. I'm so out of my element," Bird says



CNN) -- They bid farewell to their beloved trips to the opera and museum, the beach and Buddhist temples. They ate one last time at their favorite restaurants serving Indian curried chicken and warm bowls of Vietnamese pho.

Leah Bird and her husband, Ed Wright, have traded their comfortable two-bedroom apartment and jobs in Beverly Hills, California, for life in a trailer on a five-acre Oregon farm.

No longer do the couple hear roaring fire trucks in the street or chatter from patrons dining at outdoor cafes. On this farm, the dominant silence is occasionally interrupted by the sounds of frogs and crickets.

"It's not necessarily a lifestyle that has ever seemed attractive to me," says 28-year-old Bird, between tending to the farm animals: two sheep, two Nubian goats, miniature horses and geese. "I always saw myself as more of a metropolitan person, but you know, without money, this was our best option."

The couple's drastic lifestyle change -- one they chose -- came last October when Wright, 48, lost his job managing life insurance portfolios for millionaires at a private firm in Beverly Hills. His niche company, which relied heavily on capital flow, had felt the pain of the credit crunch.

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With meager savings, Bird and Wright knew they couldn't maintain their costly Los Angeles lifestyle in an area where, they say, image is everything. Even if they had stayed in Beverly Hills, they would have needed to move into a smaller apartment and rely on Bird's modest salary as a financial manager. Exhausted from the rat race, Wright decided they needed another option.

Nope. No love here..

ogneopasno  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Feb-26-09 03:59 PM
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8. I just hate articles about rich people playing poor. It provides such a fake picture of what people
   
are actually going through. ARGH.

gratuitous  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Feb-26-09 03:55 PM
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3. From Beverly Hills to Hillbillies?
   
That's just a tad insulting. But never mind.

It appears from the story that young Mr. Wright might actually come out of all this a different person. And by that, I mean eating piping hot pho instead of "warm" pho. Yuck-a-doo!

mrcheerful  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Feb-26-09 03:57 PM
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5. Con fluff piece riches to rags oh golly gee
   
aren't they special can shovel horse shit and still live decent and so can you lazy welfare bums.

That sort of sums it up.  The article says nothing about lazy welfare bums.  It's the example the couple sets that pisses DU off.  This couple loses their jobs and have the nerve to rely on their own loving family not the government.   They have the nerve to make the best of it and not go off whining, crying and demanding society pay the price for their bad lot in life.   What a horrible example they are setting!  How dare they find a way to take care of themselves and stoop to doing things that are not terribly attractive! 

They're just doing it to make us, lazy welfare bums look bad.

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It reminds me of the old union problem "stop working so hard or they'll expect all of us to work hard".

[LC EFA]

mrcheerful  (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-26-09 03:57 PM
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5. Con fluff piece riches to rags oh golly gee
   
aren't they special can shovel horse shit and still live decent and so can you lazy welfare bums.

Translation : Quit spoiling our pity party by showing us off as the whining, lazy, good for nothing looters we are.

[franksolich]

Oh, but the primitives shovel shit all the time.

Cubic yards of shit.

It's just that being primitives, they don't know it.

[Wineslob]

It sure looks like they saved money (enough to buy a farm) and decided to get out of the rat-race. In my mind, it dosen't sound like a bad way to live, considering I've never had Pho, I woulden't miss it.
DUmmies, being DUmmies, have to spew hatred.

[The Village Idiot]

Oh, but the primitives shovel shit all the time.

Cubic yards of shit.

It's just that being primitives, they don't know it.

sounds like the couple have the right idea to me

[MrsSmith]

OF course the DUmp hates them...there was no mention of government checks and no fuming over everything they can't have because said government checks are too small.  The DUmp has no use for people that are willing and able to start over again on their own gumption. 

[Chris_]

A couple who decided to actually walk the walk instead of just talk the talk....  makes all the other DUmmies look bad.

[rich_t]

The guy was only making $100k and they called him rich?

Priceless!