Brian
Sorry but you got that wrong. Kids in the Northeast visit their grandparents over December and Spring Breaks. In the summer they go to the shore and their grandparents leave Florida to spend the Summer up in the Northeast with their children and grandchildren. No one goes to FLA in the Summer if they dont have to. Trust me, I lived that one.
As for all the other observations, all the people I grew up in my nice sheltered upper middle class existence appear to have succeeded far beyond all you well traveled, well adjusted people. Not sure what the correlation is the but I’m just sayin’…………..