What is Aluminum Ghetto?
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A trailer park usually in unkempt condition with old, beater mobile homes the residents of which work in working- class, blue collar, service or contruction jobs and seasonal employment jobs building homes for the ultra rich people or working in ritzy high-class, hoity toity resort areas serving, affluent high class clientle. Such trailer parks are often located a long distance from the jobs requiring long commutes for the workers.
John and his roommate Bill get up early each morning and leave their aluminum ghetto home for the long commute to work their jobs--John as a construction foreman and Bill as a restaurant cook in a ritzy, hoity-toity resort area.
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