At the time I rode my motorcycle through a midwestern winter, it was because I was living off $5-6k a year and living on my own. I was profoundly impoverished.

At the time I rode my motorcycle through a midwestern winter, it was because I was living off $5-6k a year and living on my own. I was profoundly impoverished. But your assumptions about my status in being a yuppie like you are noted. >Anecdotally, my impression is that lots of people wear suits in both India and Southeast Asia. That wasn't my impression at all. Most people wore nice, cool button-down shirts with slacks.