Yeah when I first saw the picture I didn't give it a second thought. But once I started looking at the area around the rig.... That doesn't look like the hood around here. Where are all the busted out windows? Where are all the piles of trash and furniture and shit? I mean where do they hide the dead bodies?
St. Louis is a unique place. The “hood” in St. Louis is defined from block to block in some areas, sometimes neighbor to neighbor. There are several areas where you will have a pocket of very well kept homes and only a block away, there are numerous boarded up and sometimes falling down, groups of homes. There are also many vacant lots where the city took ownership and tore the homes down. The larger impoverished areas in St. Louis City have the best, well built, and upper level architecturally designed, turn of the century brick homes you could ever hope to find. Passing through the well kept areas, if you didn’t know the crime stats, you wouldn't know you were in an impoverished and high crime neighborhood. Many homes have servent staircases, carriage houses, marble floors, and granite and limestone staircases are common. I have a friend that was born and raised in one of those areas. He chose to buy one of those homes auctioned off by the city for something like $3000 back in the 90s.It was over 3000 sq ft, carriage house with living quarters, grand staircase, servant quarters with separate entry, built in cabinets in every room, and more. The interior woodwork alone would conservatively add $50,000 to the cost to build today. It was once, decades ago, an affluent area.