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"the sticks" doesn't mean poor, it just means in the countryside (at least in the UK). On the estate(s) would be correct for us.
I didn't grow up particularly poor, but became poor upon moving out of the family home. This led to making do with very limited ingredients, finding bargains, and that has stuck with me ever since. I've saved a lot of money down the years, can live very frugally for a period of time when I really need to, and as such became a homeowner because I knew how to knuckle down and avoid unnecessary expenditure, perhaps to the detriment of my health at times.
Is there an informal term that would describe poor rural neighborhoods similar to ghetto/barrio?
My friend grew up in the type of neighborhood you're describing and he calls them "backwoods communities"
I've never heard this term. We always called them the estate, because usually they were council estates.
Local terms will surely vary, he's from the US east coast
Then why are you replying in this thread about UK terms? Lol
...where did OP ask for UK-specific terms? I didn't say "the estates" was wrong, I answered OP's question in a comment chain that happened to start with a UK terms for poor neighborhoods...
The OP asked, in this thread, for the UK term that works. Your reply to that question led them to add another US term thinking that you were providing a UK term.
Are we reading the same thread? Nowhere in the comments does OP ask for UK-specific terms. OC said "the sticks" doesn't mean poor (agreed) and mentioned what the UK. OP accepts then asks for a better term and I replied with my anecdote.
"Backwoods" is what my friend calls the poor part of "the sticks" so I believe my reply was relevant
We're obviously both interpreting the thread differently and only the OP knows whether they were asking the UK resident for the UK term or whether the OP was asking the UK resident for more US terms.
So it seems! Oh well, no hard feelings here
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