“Cynicism is rife down here, but at the same time most of us want to see that we’re looking after each other. We have the feeling that no one else is going to look after us—for most people down here, no one ever has—and so we have to care for each other. It’s done at the most basic level—just, ‘How are you, how are you getting along?’ And then you leave the person alone. We somehow balance all the ripping each other off with the caring. There’s a lot of warmth, a lot of support.”
