Sunday, August 10, 2008

Trapped in the Pacific NW

OMG...this area of the country is a legend in it's own mind. Of course most people here have never lived any where else, tracing their ancestors back to Lewis & Clark!

Can you say, "Wagons East?"

It is a very old and poor area..........15% wealthy yuppies and boomers, living in one bedroom, $400,000, high rise condos, while smelly homeless people sleep on the sidewalks in front of their buildings, and pee behind the dumpsters! The whole town smells like urine, with lots of trash on the streets.

Detroit makes this place look like a third world ghetto!

But.......I have free public housing and food stamps. I am trapped. I lose it all if I leave, and it took me 6 months to get it. Oh well.