Who says San Quintin isn't booming? A second story was recently added to this Villa. It is sided with a great renewable, inexpensive product ---
cardboard. One of our residents commented on the homey touch the plant in the egg crate box added.Bruce R Leech - 6-13-2006 at 05:52 PM
that is why there are no homeless peple here in Baja Ca.bajajudy - 6-13-2006 at 06:30 PM
I think, given enough large appliances purchases, that they could go up another floor.Bob H - 6-13-2006 at 06:49 PM
Where is the rebar sticking our on top... he will be paying high taxes without it! Roberto - 6-13-2006 at 08:01 PM
Assuming someone has built that to live in it - where's the joke, exactly? What I see is a picture of poverty.
[Edited on 6-14-2006 by Roberto]Bruce R Leech - 6-13-2006 at 08:11 PM
Quote:
Originally posted by Roberto
Assuming someone has built that to live in it - where's the joke, exactly? What I see is a picture of poverty.
[Edited on 6-14-2006 by Roberto]
If you really look at that photo it showed a house built by a person with pride they took time to paint part and it is clean and the fact that they
have a house and don't owe a big morgridge puts them way above some people that I know in Newport beach that have a net worth of -3,000,000.00Mike Humfreville - 6-13-2006 at 08:19 PM
This building looks suspiciously like the electrical generation plant at Cielito Lindo!!!Roberto - 6-13-2006 at 08:49 PM
Quote:
Originally posted by Bruce R Leech
If you really look at that photo it showed a house built by a person with pride they took time to paint part and it is clean ...
Exactly - I think you may have missed my point, Bruce.Bruce R Leech - 6-13-2006 at 08:54 PM
I'm saying that poverty is relative. I'm sure this peple feel god about there house and are grateful that they have it. there are always lots of peple
that are worse off than you and that is what makes everything bearableBruce R Leech - 6-13-2006 at 08:56 PM
Look at how nicely painted the outhouse is.Roberto - 6-13-2006 at 09:16 PM
Bruce, poverty is way past relative when you are talking about a bunch Gringos looking at shanties built by "relatively" poor Mexicans.
I grew up in poverty, and know it is not a stigma but a circumstance. But that can be hard to understand if you have not been there.Packoderm - 6-13-2006 at 09:19 PM
First reinforce the cardboard from the inside with some sticks, then attach some chicken wire to the cardboard, mix up a bag or two of concrete to use
as stucco, paint it if you want, and you're in business.Paula - 6-13-2006 at 11:01 PM
Assuming someone has built that to live in it - where's the joke, exactly? What I see is a picture of poverty.
Widely circulated study ( by me, on Baja Nomad!)--
U.S. ranks 23rd overall on a "happiness" scale. Mexico ranks 2nd. Maybe it is the Mexican sense of humor, and acceptance of what life brings, that
produces this statistic.
Understanding materialistic
Sharksbaja - 6-14-2006 at 12:25 AM
appetites and obsessions can be no easier than in So Cal.
Shame these well trodden Hummer lovers have not the experience of humbleness to understand poverty at this level. To some of them , they(the poor)
are admonished as not being successful as a human beings. Hardly the case. I would submit that seeing as how transparent their materialistic world
really is is a lesson in itself.
After all, are they NOT trying to express an image while Ms. Daisy is being driven down to Rodeo Drive in her Champagne Hummer?
[Edited on 6-14-2006 by Sharksbaja]Capt. George - 6-14-2006 at 03:33 AM
wahhh, wahh, wahhh!
we all know that poverty exists (worlwide) & much worse then in Mexico.
go poke your head around appalchia for a while....
don't worry to much about this. In short order George W is gonna have (what was the middle class) living like this. them we can make fun of even our
(poor) selves.
capt g
don't we attempt to get a laugh from the wealthy occasionally.
It's a funny "photo"...laugh and get over it.burro bob - 6-14-2006 at 08:11 AM
This reminds me of some of the houses I saw on the Beach at Los Frailes several years ago.
A couple of friends and I had gone down to Cabo Pulmo to dive and had gone to Los Frailes to find a panguero that would take us out for less than the
ones at Cabo Pulmo. The beach just above high tide line was lined with tar paper shacks. Some of them were 3 or 4 rooms. We stopped at one, a newer
truck was parked beside it, a satellite dish was mounted on the eave, the owner was sitting in the shade of his porch in a big easy-boy type recliner
geting a haircut. All the gabachos in their $100,000 motorhomes were parked in a gully across the road. We all agreed that the guy in the tarpaper
shack had a lot nice place than any of the long term campers in motorhomes. It was obvious that the man had everything he needed, he just didn't need
anything fancier to live in than his "shack".
I think the other point that needs to be made is that the person that lives in this house probably does not have loan payments and insurance bills to
pay.
There are many many tiny little cinderblock cubicles being built here in San Felipe. The young couples that move into them are able to pay for them
relatively quickly. Very few stay as tiny little houses for long. They get added onto a few blocks at a time and soon they have another room. Yes they
still are small, but they belong to the people that live in them, not the bank or some property management company.
Also, I think the house in the picture is painted white because the homeowners group for the neighborhood it is in requires that all homes be white.
burro bob
