Goodness, no. I haven't been to proper civilisation in at least 30 years. I learned it by trial and error, mostly. [ He has to eat, after all, and so he learned how to treat and identify all sorts of problems in exchange for somewhere to sleep, or raw ingredients for cooking, or something to eat...Handling actual money here is an experience. ] There's always a trick, if you know how. It's learning how that's the hard part.

[ A baby Aipom is climbing up into his hair while he's speaking; he just doesn't seem to mind at all. It perches with pride on his head. It's a comical sight. ]