1.   Although many people in Esarn are poor, most have the bare necessities.

2.   Food shopping takes time, a commodity of which most of us have precious little.

3.   Most had by then gone public, but still controlled their firms.

4.   Most had stay-at-home wives and manual jobs.

5.   Most have a core of solid businesses that ensure that at least parts of the firm are making serious money.

6.   Most have an iridescent or metallic edge to them.

7.   Most have no-smoking areas or designated smoking rooms, but more than half the companies still without restrictions reported less tolerance for smokers.

8.   Most of them had shingled awnings borne on prominent brackets projecting over their simple wooden platforms.

9.   Most of them had to cross a creek swollen with winter rains, and deadly cold with winter ice and snow.

10.   Most of them have populations that are growing rapidly.