How good/bad NOW is the neighborhood you grew up in?!

[LuCifer]

Oh boy, were do I start?! Well, about 2 weeks ago, I was already on the clock doing a delivery, and I said Oh what the Hell! I'll drop by my old hood where I grew up, and I hadn't been there since 1999. EVERY single solitary house on my old street looked like something out of Iraq! I'm not joking. I was blown away. Every yard had about 1/10th of the grass growing that it should. The paint was literally in a lot of cases PEELING OFF the houses. It was sad. My old hood was/is very mixed, so I don't want no one getting the wrong idea here! Now here is what I cannot STAND. Speed tables and "roundabouts"! Whoever the jackass is who invented this bullcrap, I hope you rot in hell! Traffic in South Florida is ALREADY a NIGHTMARE! Now you have to slow down to 2 MPH or the speed table will completely scrap off your transmission! Plus, you have to go round and around in these stupid roundabouts JUST TO MAKE A LEFT TURN! (In all fairness, they are handy when you need to make a U-TURN, which, is surprisingly easier to do down here than making a left turn ANYWHERE!) So anyone else have a similar story as I? Tell me I am not alone. And we can all thank "President" BUSHitler for taxing the living hell out of the middle class and turning my old hood into a bigger mess than it was in the 80's.

REGISTER TO VOTE AND VOTE ALL DEMOCRAT! (As if I really need to say this, but oh why not!) AND GET EVERYONE YOU KNOW TO DO SO AS WELL!!!

Lu Cifer, reminding you that we need to abort BUSHitler before his 2nd term

[pagerbear]

1. Well, considering I"m in NYC

...and the neighborhoods I grew up in are in Milford, DE, Rochester, MN, and Monroe, NC, it's not that easy for me to get back and see. I have fond memories of some of those houses and sometimes wonder what it would be like to live in them, or at least in the same neighborhood, as an adult.

[Political_Junkie]

2. My old neighborhood has become a shopper's paradise.

All the houses are gone replaced with a Walmart, Sam's club, Bob's Discount. My grandfather's garden is now a parking lot for the local grocery store. I don't shop there, too surreal!

[Katha]

3. I grew up in the Silver Lake area of Los Angeles

and in the '80s, it was pretty run down. Now it's a haven for artists and bohemians. Go figure!

[camero]

4. Surprisingly it's still the same

I go back to the neighborhood I grew up in once a year to visit a lifelong friend. He was diagnosed with non-hodgkins lymphoma last year. Which is in remission now thankfully.

Mostly the same people still live there even though the town itself has quadrupled in size. Another friend of mine even lives in the house next door to where I lived where the old man would get me for my baseball being in his garden. He was a good man, his bark was worse than his bite.

The traffic on the street still goes too fast and always backs up when the carnival is in town.

[Terran]

5. Mine seems better

I only get back there every couple of years for Xmas, and it always looks better than what I remember. Better landscaping, mainly.

edit: it's a suburb of Los Angeles, an unincorporated area called Altadena, up by the San Gabriel mountains. Very integrated, and it hasn't become yuppiefied or anything, just...nice.

[Snoggera]

6. Look for chain link fences

and pick-up trucks parked in front of windows.

[Skittles]

7. I grew up in 13 neighborhoods

(GI Brat) :)