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Glassunion

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7. I did do quite a bit of growing up there.
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 07:02 PM
Feb 2013

From the ages of 4 to 14.

Used to be such a nice area. Town had about 2 to 3 thousand people living there... Today there is over 30 thousand people, an extra zip code, and crime. Now when I say crime, when I lived there there was not one murder, not one rape, and maybe at most 3 or 4 assaults a year. Now they have at least one murder a year, 1 or 2 rapes every other year or so, and about 20 assaults each year. If you are looking at it as far as rate, it's not so bad, but we had zero and anything more than that is too much.

They were hit hard by the ression, at times unemployment was over 12%.

It made me quite sad when I went to visit my old house. The neighborhood is totally falling apart.

But, at the time, it was a little quiet slice of heaven. We lived in a house tucked into a corner of the neighborhood, pleanty of woods and swamp land (no alligators that far north) for a kid to play around in. You could go hours and not one car would drive by.

The smell of the pines in the fall... mmm.

FUnny you should mention Zep OriginalGeek Feb 2013 #1
Most excellent amuse bouche Feb 2013 #4
The beginning of the guitar solo, OriginalGeek Feb 2013 #6
That's great amuse bouche Feb 2013 #13
Did my brain make shortcuts again? OriginalGeek Feb 2013 #26
Instrumental surf music Rob H. Feb 2013 #2
Huge Zep fan... Glassunion Feb 2013 #3
That's a pretty song amuse bouche Feb 2013 #5
I did do quite a bit of growing up there. Glassunion Feb 2013 #7
That's sad amuse bouche Feb 2013 #12
Mozart Ron Obvious Feb 2013 #8
Bach, the Brandenburg Concertos. Archae Feb 2013 #9
The Church, most people know them for Under The Milky Way. Puzzledtraveller Feb 2013 #10
~ littlemissmartypants Feb 2013 #11
Seriously amuse bouche Feb 2013 #16
No, but my dogs really like it... littlemissmartypants Feb 2013 #17
Ahhh amuse bouche Feb 2013 #20
This makes me happy but so does the sound of the leaves in the wind... littlemissmartypants Feb 2013 #18
I used to listen to Bruebeck and Miles Davis amuse bouche Feb 2013 #22
Is that a good thing? eom littlemissmartypants Feb 2013 #36
And i like this... littlemissmartypants Feb 2013 #19
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Parody littlemissmartypants Feb 2013 #38
I like this... littlemissmartypants Feb 2013 #21
Yes seriously dude. littlemissmartypants Feb 2013 #25
Whatever amuse bouche Feb 2013 #29
Like this? littlemissmartypants Feb 2013 #32
Ok ... littlemissmartypants Feb 2013 #35
You watched the video didn't you. littlemissmartypants Feb 2013 #31
^^^ In_The_Wind Feb 2013 #23
LOL When I was a wee lass The Lemon Song and Whole Lotta Love made me blush! nolabear Feb 2013 #14
Well of course amuse bouche Feb 2013 #15
Led Zeppelin ~ Stairway to Heaven (live) In_The_Wind Feb 2013 #24
Modest Mouse Neoma Feb 2013 #28
Have you heard his new stuff? amuse bouche Feb 2013 #33
this is my happy song for a few weeks now. Whisp Feb 2013 #30
Peg XRubicon Feb 2013 #34
Ride, Like a Daydream Puzzledtraveller Feb 2013 #37
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