What surprises me is that you can see a guy driving in a Porsche Cayenne (or whatever extremely expensive car) passing a slum or passing a family with horse and buggy (or whatever you call these, I´m no native English speaker)......and I keep on thinking: does this guy in the Porsche not feel any shame?
Actually what my (local) husband can't stand is that no one here can own a Porsche or other luxury car without always worrying about it if it's in the street. In fact in most places one simply can't leave it in the street at all. He complains that in this country it's becoming more and more difficult to own nice things simply because of the fact they will most likely be badly treated by others, or outright stolen. (To clarify, we do not own a luxury car. However we were given an iPad as a gift from my mother when we were back in Canada, and I feel that we really can't take it out of the house or use it in public -- it feels like flashing one's "wealth")