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[https://www.businessinsider.com/slab-city-another-place-to-give-up-on-the-american-dream-2012-2?r=US&IR=T by Robert Johnson 6/2/12 BUSINESS INSIDER] | [https://www.businessinsider.com/slab-city-another-place-to-give-up-on-the-american-dream-2012-2?r=US&IR=T by Robert Johnson 6/2/12 BUSINESS INSIDER] | ||
There are about 150 year-round residents called "Slabbers" who brave the 120 degree summer heat, on the border of Mexico, with no electricity or running water. The number of dwellers swells in the winter as "snowbirds" arrive to take advantage of the free RV parking and laid back lifestyle. | There are about 150 year-round residents called "Slabbers" who brave the 120 degree summer heat, on the border of Mexico, with no electricity or running water. The number of dwellers swells in the winter as "snowbirds" arrive to take advantage of the free RV parking and laid back lifestyle. | ||
=====Unlikely nomads: Senior single women take up life on the road===== | |||
[https://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0330/p01s03-ussc.html by Randy Dotinga 30/3/04 The CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITIR] | |||
When Charlotte Hagemann, a pumpkin decorator from New Jersey, rumbles into Slab City in her motor home each winter she sets up next to Carl Gross - a sturdy World War II veteran and her high school sweetheart. | |||
