Does this store owner know something about my neighborhood that I don’t? Will real estate prices plunge soon?

Here’s a picture of the Magdelen church nearby:

From my live cam chat:

UrlTurner:  Eliot Spitzer shouold have fought on
UrlTurner:  He gained so little by quitting.  Is this what wimps Jewish lawyers have become?
UrlTurner:  Bill Clinton toughed it out.
UrlTurner:  Spitzer might have as well.
YourMoralLeader:  please pray for me
UrlTurner:  If you had to guess, how many years will it be before you move out of the hovel?
UrlTurner:  Do you expect to die there?
UrlTurner:  Will some Mexican day laborer find you there, stuck to your chair?
UrlTurner:  Let’s do business.
YourMoralLeader:  I expect to die here live on cam