“bpt, you don’t know my shul or the people in it so why do you speak such authoritative loshon horah?”
Sorry, BPM, I DO know your shul (If BE is where you call home) and if you are any older than 45, you should know first hand what I’m talking about.
“I think you are generalizing tremendously”
Commonsense – While your relatives may be the exception to the rule, (or possibly, they are from the YI crowd, which tended to be frummer than the BE folks) the fact is, BE now serves a market that is not to be found in significant numbers in BP.
Had the cards been played differently, they may have had more to speak of. My parents were lucky enough to jump ship before we got lost to the American Dream.
Sad to say, that was not the case for many of the folks who remained.