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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?

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).

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Originally Posted by glatt (Post 692346)

you :)

: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.

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Originally Posted by Pico and ME (Post 691942)

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.: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. :)

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Originally Posted by Undertoad (Post 692189)

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!"

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Originally Posted by Undertoad (Post 692189)

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

Gotcha.

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Originally Posted by classicman (Post 692195)

OMG - You all are WAYYYYYYYYYYYY too close to me.

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