Well, I wouldn't be as well off for a number of reasons;
I would be poor; i'd be selling all my stuff for cheap to re-tail (which is what I used to do), I wouldn't have benefitted from selling my perfect pears for a premium price (I didn't know you could sell them at premium beforehand). I would also have my pears in storage, since I didn't have many friends that I could trade with using Wi-Fi. I also wouldn't have benefitted from the stalk market; I'd never attempted to buy/sell turnips in my DS game either because I didn't want to risk losing my money. I wouldn't have known the value of hybrids either.
I wouldn't have known about the value of the sloppy set and the cardboard set. Before I found this forum I bought a sloppy closet and sold it back to re-tail because I didn't know how rare it was and so I lost out. I also wouldn't have the amount of Japanese/American/Korean/European furniture that I do now (I never thought i'd get my virtual hands on it!)
Also, I would never have known about the concept of dreamies. I didn't even know what "the void" was, and I didn't even know that you could get characters to move from one town to another. I got Frobert thanks to this site (who's a little cute by the way) and I'll probably sell some of my villagers when they move (since I didn't realise that was a thing either!)
Finally, I wouldn't have known about how nice people can be. When I joined the forum, I got to take part in giveaways which were great to just be able to enter alone. I've gotten the entire sweets furniture set, blue rose hybrids and much more. Also, when I've done jobs/bought items, sometimes people will leave you with bonuses from time to time (for me, these include an extra 35,000 bells and a blue ogre mask from the bean throwing ceremony, as well as extra throwing beans). Also, I've seen how a community reacts when a player is in trouble, even when they don't even necessarily know the person, they'll still pitch in any way they can. It's reminded me that even though this is a small gaming community, there's still lovely people in the world.
