Really? I didn't know. I'd have thought a pagoda would be a damned uncomfortable place to live. At least they'll be getting in shape from all the stairs.
Did you mean perhaps that they were living in palaces?
-ccm
Pagoda.... in this case being a NE phrase for such properties as “The Kennedy Compound” etc. Not meant literally. Gore only used real Pagodas for illegal Campaign fundraising and possibly ice tea-driven pitstops.