[CJFusco]

Right again about the middle-class slowly disappearing, sternn. The term for this is social polarization... you can really tell this is happening in the town I'm from (Bristol, CT): the downtown area is getting more and more run-down every year, crime in that section goes up and up every year (the new Wal-Mart on the town's border surely doesn't help), but the houses in the area "on the hill" gets more expensive every year. Granted, this is a nice section (as every "on the hill" is in almost every town - remember, "poop flows downhill"). The middle class is very nearly gone from Bristol. You're either low-class, upper-middle class (admittedly where I am - my mother is a psychiatrist and pulls in considerable income), or upper-class (a mile or two up the road is the country club, and the houses with their own tennis courts and airstrips/hangars).