We looked at this place today - it needs a little fixing up. [image: Inline image 1]
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Richard Williams <pundits...@gmail.com>wrote: > Another place to live that sucks is in a food desert. It's all a matter of > placement and positioning. > > You live in a food desert, according to the U.S. Department of > Agriculture, if the closest grocery store is at least one mile away -- it's > 10 miles in rural areas -- and 20 percent of the residents in your census > tract live at or below the federal poverty line, which is $22,350 for a > family of four. > > "A food desert is an area where affordable healthy food is difficult to > obtain", except by a automobile. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert > > [image: Inline image 1] > > Grocery Stores in Redmond Neighborhoods? > > http://redmondcity.blogspot.com/2011/06/grocery-stores-in-neighborhoods.html > > > On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 8:15 PM, <s3raph...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> >> >> You ain't seen nothing kid. Where I was born and brought up was voted the >> worst town in Britain! (Middlesbrough in the north-east of England.) Funny >> thing is, I don't resent the place and have quite fond memories of the >> people (friendly and bullshit-free), but I can't see me ever leaving London >> for anywhere except maybe New York, Berlin, Paris, Tokyo, . . . some >> metropolis. Perhaps I've just been corrupted. >> >> >> http://tinyurl.com/mywrn4 >> >> >> >> >> ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, <punditster@...> wrote: >> >> Being a military brat, I've lived in some great places, and some places >> that sucked. One time I got stuck for a year in Valdosta, Georgia; another >> time I got stuck up in Lubbock, Texas. >> >> So, when we recently visited this place it reminded me of one of the >> towns I've lived in that sucked - back when I was seventeen. In this town >> there is a store called Dan's and a cafe called Pancho's. Go figure. >> >> When Rita and I were at Pancho's last weekend, we saw four guys sitting >> at a table, three dressed in plaid shirts, one wearing a cowboy hat, eating >> Tex-mex food and drinking beer from bottles. Now that's classy! >> >> Can't even get a date on Saturday night! That's because in places that >> suck, there are no unmarried women to date, and if there were, there's no >> place to go. LoL! >> >> >> [image: Inline image 1] >> >> >> > >
