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« on: September 21, 2005, 12:15:44 PM » |
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I used to live on a reservation, which is also the 8th poorest county in the US. Right across the border in SD was Corson county, also a reservation and the single poorest county in the country. The place was much like a getto, rundown buildings were everywhere, and graffiti was quite common.
And just to get some stats, listen to this. My family lived in a 4 bedroom house. My parents told me it cost $200/month. That's it. I now live in a $425/month one room apartment. Now this was in the last 80s so you have to adjust for inflation a bit, but that gap is quite astounding. Also the median age was around 20 because wedlock rates and births were so high that all the babies drove the median down greatly.
very depressing place to say the least. I was around the area again fairly recently, and some of those parts look like another world almost, especially Cannonball.
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