Seems to me you are just hanging out at and with the wrong people, as simple as this.
We have friends from all walk of life here (from the public housing estate tenant to the top exe banker living in south side with driver, 3 helpers etc etc) and they are all very good firends who share the same values as us:
- love of the outside
- dinner at each others place (we live in a modest 900 sqf flat bought a few years ago in the NT and our firends living in South Bay or Mid Levels have no issue whatsoever coming over to our "smallish" place)
- trips in the neighbooring countries,
- sport
etc etc
Some of our firends do carry Hermes bags (but never mention it or show it off) and some carry salomon bags (ie for running). We all get along well.....but again OPEN mind....
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