Haute Bohème (literally "Upper Bohemian")

Bohemian: the 19th-century historical and literary convention or motif that places the milieu of young metropolitan artists and intellectuals in a context of poverty, hunger, appreciation of friendship, idealization of art and contempt for money.
Please don't think of me like this at all. I never understood the allure of the starving artist and I have never thought that through hunger comes greater art. In my youth, I used to say, "Sparsamkeit ist tugendhaft, aber arm zu sein ist scheiße." (Thrift is a virtue, but being poor is sh*t!)
Half of my family (the part on my biological father's side) may have lived in or traveled through Bohemia. It saddens me at times when I think of regions that were once famous and no longer exist other than in the names of animal breeds (i.e., Dalmatians, Pomeranians, Abyssinian).
And even though all of my grandparents had lived in countries that later fell under communist rule, none of them had contempt for money.