Moneyed Philistines

From a friend, on a Christmas card:

Don't abandon Austin -- we need support in subverting the money-ed philistines.

From someone else's e-mail:

I was saddened to see the entry on your moving blog about mourning for a place that was. The change the letter writer described is everywhere. And yeah, it seems the only way not to mourn is to move. But the mourning will begin again. And somehow, it hangs on some even after leaving a place. It's relative, perhaps, but still. .