» Reading, Pa., Tops List Poverty List, Census Shows - NYTimes.com
I interned at the newspaper in Reading - The Reading Eagle - in the summer of 2007. I rented my apartment sight unseen, barely making it from Indiana in my ‘96 Ford Probe with a shot transmission, only to arrive to find that my attic bedroom had a bullet hole in the window. Within my first couple of days, there was a major prostitution sting netting somewhere around a dozen prostitutes, male and female. (Keep in mind this is a city of 88,000.)
I now find it appropriate that I was at my poorest while I lived there. I’m pretty sure I spent my last 12 dollars on a pizza within an hour of arriving. Good times.
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