> > There are actually people living in
> > jungle trees and shacks barely worthy of the name.
>
> This is absurd...and insulting. Recognize that there are also poor
> people in America with NO housing at all.
I often ran into people living in trees and shacks, and in a FAR higher
percentage than anything in America. In one not-atypical adventure, I was
driving down a backroad in my jeep, and out of the jungle comes an old man
in rags with a machete and a bundle of wildly-growing sugarcane that he had
cut. I gave him a ride home. He was an absolutely charming gentleman, who
was out for the day foraging for cane for his pigs. We had a long chat as I
drove him to his home, a shack in a tree surrounded by pigs. I was not at
all shocked by this, as there is a great deal of this sort of thing in
Jamaica. He didn't hseem to have an issue with living in a tree, as it
wasn't a great step away from the fairly typical tropical shack-living
throughout the Caribbean independent states. If you have an issue with that,
take it up with him.
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