Kevin Wayne Williams <kww.nihongo@verizon.nut> wrote:
> Kevin Gowen wrote:

>>>>> The Abos will be glad to learn that Australia has no underclass.

>>>> They all have homes. (Even colour TV, which seems to be your 
>>>> definition of rich).

>>> Yep. No hope, no future, but a nice house. Hall's Creek on a Saturday 
>>> is a vision that will be seared into my brain forever.

>> What's Hall's Creek? Is that like Skid Row?
> It's a town in Western Australia. When I passed through, the population 
> was wandering aimlessly, drunk. The only sign I saw of humanity was two 
> people making sure that their buddy was standing up while he vomited so 
> that he wouldn't get himself messy. It looked like one of the zombie 
> crowd scenes from "Night of the Living Dead".

Or any number of small towns in west Texas.

Mike