[Leica] McArthur Estates

[scleroplex at gmail.com (scleroplex)]

and in today's news -

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/propertynews/9173111/Britains-cheapest-house-sold-for-bargain-8250.html



On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 9:12 AM, scleroplex <scleroplex at gmail.com> wrote:

> same here in massachusetts because of the terrible cost of housing.
> trailer parks are where the middle class and the retired live.
> they are clean quiet welcoming places with a nice sense of community.
> lots of flags and flower gardens.
> the culturally low class live in poor inner-urban areas.
> bharani
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> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 02:22:09 -0400
> From: Chris Crawford <chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] McArthur Estates
> To: "Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>" <lug at leica-users.org>
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> It depends on where you are in the USA. In Florida, a lot of retirees live
> in them, and in places where housing is outrageously expensive, a lot of
> middle class people live in them. I saw that a lot in New Mexico, because
> houses in the Santa Fe area started at $300,000 for a dump in the barrio
> (the bad section of town) and averaged $600,000 for houses that middle
> class people in Indiana buy less than $100,000.
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> Here in Indiana, where housing is really cheap (you can buy a VERY nice
> house for $90,000 here in Fort Wayne, and housing is cheaper in Indiana's
> small towns than it is here in the city!), only really trashy people live
> in trailers. People here refer to trailer parks as "The white man's
> ghetto". The people who live in them are not necessarily poor, many are
> not, but they are culturally low-class, if that makes sense. A lot of
> rednecks who have good factory jobs or jobs as skilled tradesmen
> (plumbers, electricians, etc) will live in a trailer and spend their
> middle class wages on beer, cigarettes, and a bigass expensive pickup
> truck. Most people in trailer parks are poor though, and generally always
> white. Poor blacks here live in houses in the inner city, which can often
> be bought for less than $30,000.
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> Chris Crawford
> Fine Art Photography
> Fort Wayne, Indiana
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