why do most Americans live in shanty towns?

Question

As an Englishman who has recently returned from the USA, i feel i must ask this question. Most Americans who i met on my travels live in corrugated iron dwellings and have no running water.This is a far cry from lights and showbiz of the city which is just a facade for T.V.

Answer 1

Not true.

Answer 2

When I was still in school I worked for a company that performed repairs on Section 8 housing; that is housing for the poor. Never went into a dwelling hat did not own a VCR and TV and most were equipped with cable television. The poor in America even have luxuries such as these.

I do not know what point this guy is trying to make. Many people from outside the US are so anti American that they will make up the most ridiculous lies regardless of even the possibility of them being true.

As far as the Red Staters living in trailers that is also a ridiculous myth. I live in a 4000 square foot house. I am a middle class type. The price of housing in the Red States are so much more affordable than out blue state brothers. Every time I visit friends in NYC I am shocked at the small size and cost of apartments there.

Answer 3

Q, Whats an English mansion.
A, A bedroom over a pub.
In London, your biggest, and richest city, you idiots pay an unbelievable amount of money for what most Americans would consider trailers piled one on top of another, and no space in between. To make matters worse, the neighbor above you is probably an drunken English soccer hooligan, who will slit your throat for wearing the wrong color shirt. Let's not even talk about Birmingham, or Manchester, or any one of a thousand little horse and buggy towns who just got electricity two weeks ago. I don't know where you go on your trips to America. I think some one takes you the set of Eastenders and tells you its America, and your to dumb to know the difference. That would explain everything you think you know about American, except the funny part. For Christmas this year, please ask for a globe.

Answer 4

It's entirely true. I went to New York and it looked like a trailer park. Washington - same thing. In Seattle they still point at aircraft and Californians don't know what cars are. It amazes me that we've fallen for those lies for so long.

Now that we've proved that we can do sarcasm can you stop doing posts to wind Americans up and find another subject because it's very boring now.

Answer 5

Social divide... do something about it instead of going on about it... leave your penthouse apartment and join them in the shanti towns.... help them get running water... help out a bit will ya!

Answer 6

LOL! Your statement is absurd?

How 'bout this? Why do most Brits need to see a good orthodontist? See, we can both play at this. Fun Fun Fun.

Answer 7

Depends what part of America you went to i guess, from what i've seen most places have normal housing.

Answer 8

If you have so much free time, why dont you come over and mow my lawn? At least then you would be doing something beneficial and worthwhile.

Answer 9

I think you were kidnapped and secretly flown back to the Old Country - probably a television sound stage somewhere north and near the Irish Sea. Otherwise you were staying with your American relatives, but they are in South Africa, not in the USA.

Answer 10

I have no idea where you have been traveling but off hand I would simply say you are a total idiot. Possibly you have your head stuffed so far up your *** that your view is obstructed peering out of your belly button.

Answer 11

Did your corrugated community have a name, like "EZ storage"?. Were the doors large, 6'x8'?
Or you may have found our "hidden city of lawn care".
Lawn care is very active in the summer, that's when the buildings shed their skins.