I agree with you absolutely with the Lestat and Louis thing. Absolutely. Little of anything new, ideas-wise, has been on offer since Anne Rice's novels. I know her last ones were much weaker, and I wish she'd not gone down the awful Atlantis rabbit hole... But no doubt plenty of people disagree with me on that.

Where I live is not a wealth area by any means. The little town's shops are mostly charity shops and cheap household supplies. There are very few quality shops there, and those which are cater mostly to teen fashions.