This is a private, anonymous poll to get an idea of The Dope’s general standard of living w/r/t the kinds of homes we live in. Given the vast differences in cost of living across the country, what may be considered “low-rent” in one part of the country is considered “perfectly average” in another part of the country; use your best judgment. If you live with your parents, please select the living situation that describes your parents’ home. If your living situation doesn’t match any of the options, please pick “Other.”
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The flaw in this poll is that you assume that anyone not living in a dorm or ghetto lives in a house. Many of us live in apartments, which might be anything from project housing to a high rise penthouse. And in some cities, poverty and lavish luxury exist side by side.
I rent a house in a (I think) middle class neighborhood.
I’m a little conflicted in that for some, the description in your list does not correlate with what I would expect to see as the picture in your example.
I’ll go with the picture as more definitive.
We live in an Option 5 type house, but our family’s 20 acres is the ‘hole in the donut’ surrounded by housing developments like Option 7.
Exactly. I live in a very average condo in one of the worst parts of town. Inside the condo complex is a very different world than immediately outside the complex. I live in the ghetto, but my actual living space is perfectly average.
I live in an upper-middle class area just outside of a university, but my actual apartment is average. I voted other.
I consider apartments as being part of any of the options, really. You can have an apartment in a ghetto, or you can have a penthouse on Park Avenue, but either way there’s a house that corrolates.
So I didn’t leave off apartments, necessarily, I just expected apartment dwellers to vote based on a corresponding style of house.
And yes, I get that the pictures don’t always match up with expectations. I tried the best I could.
Lucky me, the correct answer is on this list. (College dorm. I certainly wouldn’t compare it to barracks or a prison though; my room is quite spacious.)
No worries there, just trying to insure we’re on the same page. Interesting poll. I’ll be curious as to the results.
I live in a low-rent trailer park, so I selected Option 4.
Yeah, I just wanted a catch-all for “group housing.”
I live in a gentrifying area. There is some ghetto with all of the things you would expect to go with it, and some homes that are in the $500,000 range. You have some families on welfare and some making more than $150,000 per year. You have businesses catering to different demographics and not a whole lot of intersection.
I pay decent, middle-class rent for an apartment in an upper-middle-class (and increasingly trendy) neighborhood. I voted 5, although 6 can almost apply.
I live in a working clas neighborhood. Not really what you’d call low rent, but too close to some very nasty areas to be considered average. The town I live in is an immigrant city, and there are certainly issues (a couple of months ago my wife got to watch the cops dress down and arrest a heroin addict in the grocery store parking lot).
My barracks was nicer than the dorms of college I dropped out of, actually. Doesn’t seem anything like what I’d guess a prison to be.
Wow! I wonder who selected “Mansion”???
I live in one of the most if not the most expensive housing markets in the country and while it isn’t a McMansion or mansion it’s a brand new custom built home near the ocean. So I chose other.
Voted Other. I live in a middle class house in an area known for rural poverty.
I had to choose other. I live in a very rural area, no “neighborhood” for miles.
maybe the live-in help!