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Originally posted by Kadath
I don't mean to snipe, but maybe you don't see too many. Try going to north Philly. You'll see plenty of decrepit row homes and those people who do have cars are driving rusting junkbuckets from the early 80s at best.
Compared to the poor in other nations, maybe. Our poor aren't living in shacks made out of sheet metal without running water or electricity. Things still aren't good for them.
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Hey, what a coincidence. I lived in North Philly (Elkins Park, actually) until just last year, when I was driven out of the state by suffocating taxes (yes, high taxes drive away the people they're aimed at, thereby reducing government revenue, but that's an example of short-sighted liberalism for another day).
Know what I noticed about those decrepit row homes? DSS dishes on almost every one. And for every junked-out rustbucket, there was a Cadillac Escalade with all those weird ghetto customization things on it.
But that's just one tiny part of the world. The average home size in the United States is now 2,200 square feet, up from 1,400 square feet in 1970, according to the National Association of Home Builders. That's a pretty phenomenal increase.
Also consider that more Americans now own their own home than ever before.
Where in Philly are ya?