Opinion of the Cabrini-Green Housing Projects?

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

You're not being cute, BRTD. Cut it out. This is akin to arguing that you'd cheerfully sign up for fighting in the trenches on the Western Front for the chance to see the beautiful French countryside.

My attitude on this needs to be understood in context. I grew up in North Dakota and wanted to get out and move to a big city...but many people around were talking about how horrifying that is because all big cities are universally terrible places and you'd never survive and if you want to move to a bigger metro at least go to a suburb. So I vowed to never live in a suburb.

Because it's wise to go the rest of your life guided by an "F#ck you, Dad!" mentality developed during your adolescence. After all, if there's one thing we know, it's that you never need to mature beyond your freshman year of high school.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Cabrini-Green, that name sounds like a great prefab subtropical resort.  How exciting!

There's a Catholic school in Southeastern Michigan named Cabrini (after a bishop, I think), so that's what pops into my head whenever I read this thread name.

Good example of the generally disastrous nature of public housing projects and urban "renewal" which probably was the biggest mistake of midcentury liberalism.

You sure? There were a lot of 'em.