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In reply to the discussion: A solution to affordable housing... that Americans just don't seem to like. [View all]nightthinker
(268 posts)I've lived in the projects... and believe me, I would never do it again. People will steal your clothes off the clothesline, on the third floor! Every stitch of it. Got a car? It will be stolen. Got a crappy car? It will be stripped. Got a bicycle? Push it up the stairs and into the apartment because bike locks mean nothing! Getting food stamps in the mail? You will be robbed at the mailboxes. People throw their garbage in the street instead of in the dumpster a few more feet away. You have to sleep with the lights on, because if you don't roaches will crawl all over you and your babies. Pesticides do NOTHING. Try to walk to a park with your kids? People will try to take away your stroller. You will be catcalled walking down the street with your kids. The city bus will pass you by because it is already full. Drug dealers and prostitutes are your neighbors. I tried and tried to just stick it out, but a storm crashed in the ceiling in my living room. This was in Arizona, long ago, but it will stay in my memory as something I never want to repeat.