I live on the east side of Indianapolis.1. They videotape "Cops" nine blocks from my house when they are in town.2. There was a sexual assault in the alley behind my house, just two houses down from mine.3. A cab driver was shot down the street at the corner.4. My zip code has the highest per capita ratio of registered sex offenders in the city.5. Someone has broken in to my garage 5 times in the past ten years.6. The convenience store at the corner has been robbed 50 times in the past ten years.This isn't a low economic neighborhood. It consists of mostly middle class people who are fighting back and so far we are holding the fort down. The reason I stay is the potential for renewal in this area is excellent. Homes are being renovated and the neighbors are good people. If I were to relocate and buy a home with the same square footage it would cost me over $300K. And that is in a vinyl village where the quality of the home is crap. My home is over 80 years old and has character.
keep fighting brother!
I live in an apt., but in a very nice wooded area. We will buy a home soon. "Low economic neighborhood" is a wide brush to paint with too. I used to live in an area that financially would be considered better than here, but I hated it. It was a business mecha, party night every night. Hated it.
well i used to live on the "bad side" of town. i didn't notice it too much. you know you hear the occasional gunshot or the screaming and slamming of doors from the neighbors next door, but pretty much it was life as normal.
...wow, I never get any of that here.
I do :)It's much dark :))and of course less light... sometimes is very cool...sometimes you get bored being so far from the important places in the town;
my wife's vocation takes her into the worst area in AZ. low income high crime rate and some unbelievable living conditions. it's primarily AA and hispanic but a little of everything. However this huge area of south phoenix started transforming itself about 5 years ago. There is new single residence housing going up everywhere even some custom homes, beautiful new shopping centers, restaurants, private schools etc. The only sad part is much of the previously non residential acreage which was citrus groves and Japanese flower gardens has become concrete like in "The Grateful Dead " song.