Slab City, California Observations
We recently visited Slab City, California; it is located just southeast of the Salton Sea. Slab City started as a Marine training base during WWII. When the base was no longer needed, the building...
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SCVJeff wrote:
Niland isn't exactly a bustling metropolis. It's a has-been poverty level arguably farm town whos businesses that are left surely need the revenue. Unless they can survive from the weekend sand buggy crowd, those 500-2000+ or so people out there still represent traffic at the markets, etc. Wouldn't be surprising if there are more folks at the Slabs than the entire population of Niland itself. Yeah they don't pay property taxes, but they certainly make a financial impact on the local businesses.
Forcing them out may not be a wise idea economically.
It they had money they wouldn't be living on a concrete slab with no water/electricity/sewers in the middle of nowhere........
