Your Neighborhood
 

I live in a vanilla town - however, there are parts of it that are kind of cool - secret out of the way neighborhoods and stone towers and stuff, but I don't live anywhere near that stuff - I live in BoringWorld, where nothing ever happens and everyones car has a bad, rumbly muffler.

What is you neighborhood like?

see poll above :)

Well, out on the main drag two blocks away is a small store that sells "funky, artsy, antique" flea market crap. And it's a pretty diverse street I live on, so Imma go for funky artsy diverse. But we're awfully vanilla too.

VERY VANILLA

MyNeighborhood

Estimated median house or condo value in 2008:
$86,897 (it was $66,200 in 2000)

Estimated median household income in 2008:
$50,282 (it was $45,444 in 2000)

Population density:
3748 people per 1 square mile

Ancestries:
United States (22.9%), German (14.9%), Irish (11.1%), English (10.9%), Scottish (3.0%), French (2.8%).

Dec. 2009 cost of living index:
77.6 (low, U.S. average is 100)

For population 25 years and over

* High school or higher: 82.6%
* Bachelor's degree or higher: 6.7%
* Graduate or professional degree: 1.0%
* Unemployed: 5.6%
* Mean travel time to work: 19.2 minutes

For population 15 years or over

* Never married: 19.3%
* Now married: 60.3%
* Separated: 1.6%
* Widowed: 6.9%
* Divorced: 12.0%

Races:
* White alone - 3,050 (93.2%)
* Black alone - 93 (2.8%)
* Hispanic - 80 (2.4%)
* Two or more races - 36 (1.1%)
* American alone - 10 (0.3%)
* Asian alone - 3 (0.09%)
* Other race alone - 2 (0.06%)

compared to average:

* Black race population percentage significantly below state average.
* Foreign-born population percentage significantly below state average.
* Renting percentage below state average.
* Percentage of population with a bachelor's degree or higher significantly below state average.

historical tornado activity is above Indiana state average. It is 213% greater than the overall U.S. average.

AND it looks like this:

Pico, is it me or did the developer have an artistic sense to draw out a figure (bear or wolfman ?)

I wasn't sure what to pick, so I went with funky, artsy, diverse. It's a set of brick buildings, initially built to house civilian workers in DC for World War II. Then it was apartments, and finally converted to condos in 1980. Wide range of residents. Lots of pets.

quiant/ rednecky

I liked your link Pico and although I didn't need graphs to tell me it's boring here, I got some interesting results. The first pie chart is from my neighborhood. The second is across town. I was surprised to see how many white people live there because I was sure it was all of this neighborhood going there to shop. The most interesting is the line graph. WTF! Where are all of the old people. lol

lol - The 'head' actually points east. The 'teeth' is a grade school.

Im not sure what he was going for design-wise, except because all the roads seem to curve into each other, newcomers get lost all the time.

We are a unincorporated community. It was developed in the 60's, I think (at least I know that's when my house was built). All the roads have an 'Indian' name.

You've seen my environs.
The neighbourhood don't fit any of the above, being 50+ years old and a bit cheap.

Unless you mean the town.
In which case it's ages old but mostly destroyed in the 60's.
And a lot of what was replaced is Grim.

We're a smallish town, despite being the County Seat.
We are reasonably diverse culturally, but this is suspected, not celebrated (I see the difference from living in Leicester).
The vast majority of people here are 1st or 2nd generation - and I don't just mean overseas immigrants, my parents came here from London.

We're deep in the Conservative (party) heartlands, and share our county with millionaires; both noveau riche (Ozzy Osbourne) and landed gentry. But the vast majority of people don't live this way.

We have some lovely place names. I lived in Quainton, which is close to Marsh Gibbon. My trip to college took me past Little Missendon. We used to go and picnic at the windmill in Brill.

I don't love this town, but I don't like outsiders criticising it.
I do love this County - I love the landscape, the history, the houses. When I win the Lottery I will have a house in one of the beautiful villages or towns hereabouts. And I will raise a whole troupe of cats to hold the same values I do.

Well, mine's kind of a rural-ish area outside of a small town, so if you're talking about my *immediate* neighborhood, none of the above. But if you're talking about the general flavor of the town I live in, definitely new money rich. Not including me. :) Blech.

I live in the affordable (for us) part of an affluent community. It consists of small, single homes, selling for about $200,000, I'd guess, with combined property taxes of about $5,000. A couple of blocks over one way is low income housing (very small multifamily dwellings). A couple blocks the other way are $350,000+ homes, with taxes of about $8,000.

http://pics4.city-data.com/zag/za19086.png

http://pics4.city-data.com/ztrends/19086.png
http://pics.city-data.com/zraces/5633.jpg

http://cellar.org/2010/trmap.jpg

although i messed up J's childhood home caption, it should have been 800 yards.

Is J a Chester girl, or right on the creek?

Are your ex's parents off of Toddmorten?

J is from Chester. It's a little worse now than it was then.

Ex's parents, the other side of the creek, off High Meadow Dr.

OMG - You all are WAYYYYYYYYYYYY too close to me.

Birds of a feather...

This thread title and the opening to last night's Colbert Report have given me a Mr Rogers earworm.

I love that the low income arrow points to Pennsylvania Ave. :D

Vanilla is a bit too extravagant to describe my 'hood. Unflavored tofu, is a better description.

ETA: Or clear gelatin.

Other would be another choice... My neighborhood is basically new, but it does not describe the money side.

What is "rich" anyway?

you :)

Ye Olde Money and Funky Artsy.

Even in this market, homes go for $1million and up. These two are on the street over from ours.

http://www.173highland.com/

http://www.146highland.com/

Most of the homes are older, 1920s and 30s, craftsman style or mission style, a lot of artists and musicians in the area (about a dozen other pro players, including the harpist for the LA phil across the street).

:lol2: good one...

I live in the minivan/soccermom suburb surrounding the incredibly funky artsy city.

Out here, $200,000 will get you a 5-bedroom, 3,000 square foot house. In the whole area I grew up in, you have to go up to $400,000 before you can even get a 2-bed 1-bath built in the 60s.


We have neighborhood pools, an HOA, tons of minivans, a very active PTA, and kids get hauled in from other neighborhoods to trick or treat in ours. *shrug* I like it here.

My one-bedroom condo is over $300,000.

Our house is a tear down. If we ever sold it, the new owners would flatten it and build a mcmansion. It's worth around 500k or so. Maybe a bit more. That's almost all in the land.

Pico, I don't know how to tell you this, but your town has buck teeth.:D

Vanilla and Boring trending toward seedy. The screening of new residents is not as precise and careful as it once was.

Happy and Clod, you are rich bastids.... give us your money. :)

I married a Chester girl. She grew up on Madison. The first time I brought her to a family dinner, my racist brother-in-law said "oh, she's white!"

Gotcha.

Don't worry, I don't threaten violence to people on the internet.;)

Typical conservative.:rolleyes:

I know we're certainly rich by somebody's standards, but not by yours. :)

I'm taxed without representation, which is what the real tea party was all about.

Fuck all you rich bastidges.

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Neighborhood's vanilla -- apartments, townhouses, dates from the Sixties -- but I'm not bored. We've got beach, which I hardly ever use as the be-surfed air there often gives me a bit of a raw throat.

The Oxnard metro area is a bluecollar city of big shoulders with a taco stand about every fourth block. SoCal comida Mexicana quite spoils one for the alleged Mexican food to be found in points north and east. Here it's cooked by grandmothers who give it a lifetime's refinement.

Oh man, you live in Oxnard? I grew up in Camarillo!

Our neighbourhood is a bit of everything. There's a well known artist who lives a few doors down from us with a gallery and all at his place, while across the road there's a single Mum bringing up a few kids while working full time. Two streets over there are some million dollar houses and a couple of K's in one direction there's a canal estate with nothing under 1.5 mill. If you go the same distance in the other direction, you end up in the cane fields.

We have a pretty interesting mix in our area. It's nice.

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The low income bit is called Crum Creek Manor? Srsly? :lol: Very Beano/Viz.

I live in an Oasis in the middle of commercial and ghetto. It's only 12 blocks and all of the streets are deadends (north and west). The neighborhood was originally created in the 20's and 30's by one of the city's first developers. The house styles are mostly colonial -Dutch, French, Georgian and some Victorian tidbits thrown in here and there. A few of the cottage/bungalow houses are newer, from the 50's and 60's. I live in one built in 1955. I used to own a colonial from 1926 a couple of streets over.

I love the neighborhood, but the zoned schools suck and house prices are extremely high (considering what it's surrounded by). So, I'm probably going to be moving on next summer in order to find a better school for my kindergartener (schools were closed last year, screwing up my 'plan'). I can get a lot more house for a lot less money, if I'm not married to this little 6 block long oasis.

The buzzing metropolis where I live...

http://i886.photobucket.com/albums/a...amson/zzz2.jpg

Griff, Which way is my late father in law's place from you?

His place was almost due South from mine. I'd have to measure it but it can only be about 5 miles overland.

my neighbors compound
The school buses are FULL of Stuff !!!!

Good for him, no sense in wasting acreage with grass and shit, make it work. :haha:

How do I save the Google image so I can post me?

hit the "prnt scrn" button, and then open an image editing program to a blank document and hit "paste." Then save and post.

thanks.