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Posted on 8/26/18 at 10:38 pm to Parmen
I grew up in the Lower 9th Ward in the 50's-60's, so yes, it's been downhill for a long time.
Posted on 8/26/18 at 10:46 pm to jimbeam
Sublime.
Kudos
Kudos
Posted on 8/26/18 at 10:48 pm to Parmen
If your are asking if black people moved into the neighborhood I grew up in, then yes. The value of the house decreased, but my parents stayed there. My father died 2 years ago and my mother is still happy there and likes her neighbors (because they cut their grass and keep out the ghetto riff raff.)Real estate values in that neighborhood equalized and she refuses to move. It is still a pretty good neighborhood, in terms of low crime.
This post was edited on 8/26/18 at 10:51 pm
Posted on 8/26/18 at 11:15 pm to Parmen
Well, I grew up in Baton Rouge.....so, yeah.
Posted on 8/26/18 at 11:18 pm to Parmen
Mine was bad when I still lived there. Robbed at gunpoint in my own driveway at 16. That was 1994. I bet it’s a total war zone there now.
70805 representing
70805 representing
Posted on 8/26/18 at 11:23 pm to LouisianaLady
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Shelley Street by Redemptorist
I lived a few streets over from Redemptorist for a couple years as a kid in the late 70's. I wouldn't drive through that neighborhood in the daylight now, and I am not exaggerating.
Posted on 8/26/18 at 11:25 pm to lsunurse
One of the houses got tore down and is now part of a paved parking lot for a cancer center. The other got tore down and is now a gravel lot.
Posted on 8/26/18 at 11:26 pm to lsunurse
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Mine was bad when I still lived there. Robbed at gunpoint in my own driveway at 16. That was 1994. I bet it’s a total war zone there now.
70805 representing
It's worse now.
Posted on 8/26/18 at 11:28 pm to Parmen
I didn't grow up in a neighborhood, but the closest town has actually gotten better and the places that were shitty when I was a kid are still shitty. Most of the growth in population has come from native births to the area, or from transplants who live there to have a reasonable commute and very reasonable COL.
Posted on 8/26/18 at 11:39 pm to lsunurse
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Mine was bad when I still lived there. Robbed at gunpoint in my own driveway at
Yikes, that’s pretty rough
Posted on 8/26/18 at 11:39 pm to lsunurse
Are you one of the fat, old disgruntled nurses at olol- north ER?
This post was edited on 8/26/18 at 11:51 pm
Posted on 8/26/18 at 11:41 pm to VanCleef
Left out aa
Posted on 8/27/18 at 1:10 am to vince vega
Not downhill, just different. I grew up in a town south of San Francisco. It was about 70% Italian and 20% Portuguese immigrants and roughly 10% Blacks who came from Louisiana and Mississippi during WWII to work at the shipbuilding facility located there. It was a totally blue-collar neighborhood. I also grew up within a mile radius of 100+ relatives, only 4 which remain. The demographics of the town have completely changed. Italians, Portuguese, and Blacks out, Mexican, Filipino, and Pacific Islanders in.
Demographics changing again as Silicon Valley employees needing housing are paying a million for a small 3/1 that my parents bought for 17K in the late 50's.
Demographics changing again as Silicon Valley employees needing housing are paying a million for a small 3/1 that my parents bought for 17K in the late 50's.
Posted on 8/27/18 at 7:15 am to fallguy_1978
I grew up in Willowwood also. Small world. Who were your friends? My house isn’t there anymore. FEMA bought it from my parents and leveled it after it flooded nine times.
It’s just a pretty empty lot that can’t be built on.
I’m in my early 40’s so we probably know the same people.
It’s just a pretty empty lot that can’t be built on.
I’m in my early 40’s so we probably know the same people.
This post was edited on 8/27/18 at 7:20 am
Posted on 8/27/18 at 7:17 am to Parmen
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Used to be an Italian and Greek community
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now it’s overgrown with immigrants
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now
Huh?
Posted on 8/27/18 at 7:17 am to Parmen
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Used to be an Italian and Greek community, now it’s overgrown with immigrants
you can't seriously be that dumb
Posted on 8/27/18 at 7:17 am to Parmen
Mine. Gentilly in NOLA. Pretty much wiped out by Katrina. Before K it was already sliding beyond transitional. In the 1950s-60s, was a pretty safe suburban middle class neighborhood. First hit came when the Metairie boom sucked up all the up and comers, and those who saw the future impact of encroaching culcha first.
This post was edited on 8/27/18 at 7:21 am
Posted on 8/27/18 at 7:18 am to Parmen
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Either third or fourth generation, not fresh off the boat. And at least Italians and Greeks assimilate. These Asians and Latinos think they are back home
The least of our problems in this country is Asians and Latinos
Posted on 8/27/18 at 7:19 am to Parmen
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These Asians and Latinos think they are back home
plus they don't look like you.
first and second generation European immigrants keep a lot of their own culture as well.
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