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In reply to the discussion: Is there any music that just makes you so happy and [View all]Glassunion
(10,201 posts)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.