Your Neighborhood

[Trilby]

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

[glatt]

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.

[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:

[Lamplighter]

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

[Happy Monkey]

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.

[jimhelm]

quiant/ rednecky

[skysidhe]

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

[Pico and ME]

Originally Posted by Lamplighter

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

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.

[Sundae]

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.

[Juniper]

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.

[Spexxvet]

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.

Average Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) in 2004: $87,513 (Individual Income Tax Returns)

Here: $87,513
State: $48,049


Salary/wage: $70,074 (reported on 79.7% of returns)

Here: $70,074
State: $42,646

[Undertoad]

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

[Spexxvet]

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

Are your ex's parents off of Toddmorten?

[Undertoad]

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.

[classicman]

OMG - You all are WAYYYYYYYYYYYY too close to me.