I just read through this thread again, and nowhere did I find a word against the PEOPLE living in apartments or lower income housing. What I deplore, is tearing out usable facilities to build 8-900,000 dollar edifices that to a large degree stand empty, when we have a huge surplus of unsold homes in this country. Many of the "low income" built to minimum spec tracts do turn to **** in a short time. And living in a lot of substandard apartments is like living in a rabbit warren. I resent having people lumped into a category of "boors". When I lived in Halifax, and when we were back there this summer, I really didnt notice the good citizens of good neighborhoods tearing out their open space and recreational facilities to help the underprivileged. I applaud what was done in your mining community. I am sure people were appreciative. We have been doing that kind of thing in the States for a long time, believe it or not. Why even out here "in the middle of no where" we do it locally without public funding as a community share program. It wasnt invented in Nova Scotia.
