The area is known for its pig farms. In fact, the airport is often bathed in the odour d'porc that comes from the nearby farms when the winds blow the "right" way.
As far as "class" goes, we are not talking sociology here ALJ, we are talking economics and real estate. The area is low class because the people are generally small farmers, or workers, unskilled, in nearby farms or factories. There are no college professors, dentists or lawyers living in the area. There are no business owners living there.
There are some monstrous houses built by persons that went to New York and came back with money but no taste and built their {proof of success+}. That is why is it low class.
Houses of 30 to 100K US$ at the top end of the scale. But most with concrete floors, cinder blocks up to the windowsills and then palm wood up to sheet metal (zinc) roofs. The US$30,000 are little cinder block houses with poured concrete roofs, that are ovens in disguise, but the fact that they do not have zinc roofs is {proof of success}.
Keep the land, Santiago is growing in that direction. It will be more valuable as time goes by. Put up a modest house and save.
HB