Your Neighborhood

[Lamplighter]

Birds of a feather...

[Happy Monkey]

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

[Pete Zicato]

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

[Gravdigr]

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

ETA: Or clear gelatin.

[TheMercenary]

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

What is "rich" anyway?

[glatt]

you

[smoothmoniker]

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).

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by glatt

you

good one...

[Clodfobble]

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.

[Happy Monkey]

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

[glatt]

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.

[spudcon]

Originally Posted by Pico and ME

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

[wolf]

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

[TheMercenary]

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

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

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

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!"

Originally Posted by Undertoad

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

Gotcha.

Originally Posted by classicman

OMG - You all are WAYYYYYYYYYYYY too close to me.

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