"Gary" > wrote in message ...
> Julie Bove wrote:
>>
>> I don't know. Maybe I have the wrong idea of what a slum is. I think of
>> it
>> as a building.
>
> IMO, a slum is an area, not one building. I grew up in the Washington DC
> area and they had/have a slum area. It's several square blocks (and not
> far from the White House) (NW area of the city). It's a large area with
> rundown buildings, many poor people and homeless. Drug sales are
> everywhere. Cheap hookers on many corners. It's not a nice place to be.
> I've seen homeless sleeping on the sidewalks next to a building with old
> newspaper for a blanket. Many jobless people just hanging around on the
> streets during the day. They are not out looking for jobs...they have
> already given up. And seriously...most of the people you see are
> hookers, drug addicts, and the mentally ill. Oh and now it's all gangs,
> claim their territory. It's very sad to see the bottom of the human
> chain.
>
> I saw all this delivering furniture. A slum is NOT somewhere to be in
> the daytime and if you go into one at night, it's a death wish.
>
> Donald will fix all this, I'm sure. ;-)

Yes. That is exactly what I saw in DC. Shocked the hell out of me because I
have *never* lived anywhere with an area like that.

In looking it up, we apparently did have some buildings in West Seattle that
were referred to as slums because the owner did not keep the buildings up.
But those are long gone now.

We do have tent city. Those people just sort of take over an area and there
seems to be nothing we can do about it except to move them elsewhere.