What's missing in "rich countries" I think is the village pet. Loads of places have dogs and cats just roam around and people feed them leftovers and such. People care about them as much as any one would a pet, but no one out right owns the animal.
I have a comic that I work on when I have the time and energy for. If not some random doodles or drawing maps and sometime NPCs amongst my prep for my dnd game. Some times I play videogames too but I find it hard to really sink into it the way I did when I was a kid.
I made an offhanded comment about not liking Akon's part in Gewn Stafani's Sweet Escape to my friend. He then proceeds to play the song around me every chance he got for weeks and have Pavlov'd me into having a negative reaction to the song. I have also developed an uncanny (according to my SO) ability to recognise Gwen Stafani's voice even though I have never put on one of her songs on my own.
CATPAT