Last Dollar and Greg: Read the thread , the references to those living in apartments "like rats" and match-box houses that over time "turn to shit." "It's shocking that people live in such match boxes."
It is boorish---"ill-bred or clumsy" OED---of those who generalize from their lofty perches of aesthetic taste and good fortune about the tens of millions living in apartments and modest housing.
As for Texas, I beat a rabbit path from Houston to Clear Lake for months on end and hunted westward with NASA engineers. All I saw was uninhabited land to the horizon, scrubby to my eyes. People would have made an improvement.
