what kind of neighborhood are you from?

trent bortknob · December 8, 2012 05:12 AM

where are u from

ZennyPLUS · December 8, 2012 05:27 AM

I was born and raised in a small town in NY, where I ended up moving to a very low income area of South Bronx for a little while. When I was 13, my family moved to Orlando FL and then here to Palm Bay. It has been eternally boring since.

Gilthwixt · December 8, 2012 05:43 AM

Quote from: ZennyPLUS on December 8, 2012 05:27 AM
I was born and raised in a small town in NY, where I ended up moving to a very low income area of South Bronx for a little while. When I was 13, my family moved to Orlando FL and then here to Palm Bay. It has been eternally boring since.

One of my exes would take us all out to her parents' condo in Palm Bay. Other than the beach the place seemed dead apart from the Nasa stuff. Honestly though the UCF area (east Orlando) can be pretty damn fun if you're in your 20's.

As for me, I grew up and currently live in suburban South Florida, the greater Ft. Lauderdale area specifically. It's about as melting pot as you can get outside of NYC or Cali IMO...You've got Cuban, Dominican, Jamaican, Bahamian, Puerto Rican, Trinidadian, and Haitian, and that's just out of the Caribbean. Plenty of South American families, a lot of French-Canadian retirees, and the Middle Eastern population is growing. Not a crazy amount of Asians but we're here. So even though we're not inner city, the makeup at school is typically 30% white, 30% black, 30% Hispanic and 10% other.

Necronomitr0n · December 8, 2012 06:45 AM

i grew up in a small farming town in washington and lived there for nearly all my life until i joined the military

now i'm stationed at a small base outside of another small town in texas

gotta say i was expecting to hate it but it's actually not that bad

psi43 · December 8, 2012 11:35 AM

I grew up in a medium sized village in Germany, with lots of big open areas and fields all around and every house looking different.

I considered my childhood there to be quite good, considering that the village provided me with everything a kid would need. There was a beach nearby, a harbor, forests, an open air skate-park and all that kind of stuff.
What I noticed though is that all of the people I befriended there, back in my childhood, are either dealing drugs or hooked and/on drugs and usually incredibly stupid, very obnoxious/loud and go drinking almost every day.
To top that off, barely any of them have a job with a bright future and either no education or one of the lowest level.

So yeah, as much as I enjoyed that place when I was young, I'm very glad that I moved away when I was 12. If I had stayed there, hanging out with exactly those people every day, that could've been me now.

From that point onwards there's not much to talk about. The new village my family moved to was similar from a structural point of view, but the new friends I've made there were a lot more dedicated to succeeding, which I guess has inspired me somehow.

As for currently:
I'm living in a student's apartment in Denmark (16m² with no f'kin kitchen), paying way more than I should for it. The area is a mix of a suburban area and a tightly packed city, with me living in the suburban part of it.
The city I'm living in is generally considered to be a "student city", because there's 6 universities located here. That means there's a lot of parties going on everywhere, which is a nice way to relax and meet people from time to time, so nothing to complain about there.
Aside from the incredibly high prices on everything (25% VAT wtf?), it's a cool place to live!

Sheepy · December 8, 2012 02:57 PM

I live in a rather strange "consensus designated place" in Hernando, Florida. The neighborhood I reside in is mostly comprised of really poor looking homes with new fancy two story houses sprinkled around the place. Really low income for the most part, but then there are the people with five fucking cars in their driveway so it makes me wonder. On my street about earlier this year there was a plane crash, a sports plane this man was flying, he somehow lost control and fell right on the street just a few steps away from my house. The plane crashed in the words somewhere so the only people that got hurt was the pilot. He also landed in front of a man's house who was going to have a garage sale the next day so he ended up painting over the splatter which looks even worse than the stained human goop. To top it all off, a couple of months ago, the same man committed suicide. It's kind of unnerving I guess.

The rest of the place is mostly failing small businesses and shopping centers spread everywhere, as per usual in the South.

Casey Pixmintro · December 8, 2012 08:10 PM

I lived in the Baltimore metro area until I was 12. It was a mix of very dense suburban row-home housing and townhomes depending on the neighborhood. Then I moved to a small town in NE Pennsylvania, very rural, very boring. Also went to college in a fairly small town, but at least there was plenty to do. Now as of yesterday, my new home is gonna be in the Prospect Lefferts Gardens neighborhood of Brooklyn a few blocks from Prospect Park. Just signed for it yesterday and the only way I can fuck it up is if something goes wrong with my credit. The area has tons of cute brownstones and big apartment buildings. Big Caribbean population there, lots of Jerk Chicken restaurants around.

Flash · December 8, 2012 08:51 PM

Quote from: Sheepy on December 8, 2012 02:57 PMThe neighborhood I reside in is mostly comprised of really poor looking homes with new fancy two story houses sprinkled around the place. Really low income for the most part, but then there are the people with five fucking cars in their driveway so it makes me wonder.

I live in São Paulo and most of the city is exactly like that. Either the rich people hide in poor-looking houses, or you can see the differences between incomes from block to block. I don't stay in my neighborhood much, and whether I'm with my richer-than-me friends or with my poorer-than-me friends, there's always shit to do. Can't complain at all, and never will until I start living on my lonesome in some shitty neighborhood.

bd648 · December 9, 2012 01:55 AM

Middle class suburb in NJ. There is nothing to do here.

ExBerian · December 9, 2012 02:22 AM

I live in the suburbs in the metropolitan area of Indianapolis in just a regular American ranch styled house, american flag on the porch and everything. I still live there :3. And I also HATE the fact that my city is the 12th biggest in America and STILL has no other public transport than bus, and there aren't that many buses used either.

zwimmy · December 9, 2012 04:32 AM

A middle class suburb in southwestern Ontario. It had pretty old houses (I think ours was built in the 30's) and there were a lot of large trees which must have been pretty old too. Like when you're driving down the street it almost feels like you're in a tunnel because there were so many branches overhead. I always liked that. Newer suburbs where there aren't any trees give me an uneasy feeling.

Sheepy · December 9, 2012 08:33 AM

I hope none of you have to know what it's like having a petty criminal living nextdoor for the past whole your life.

ZennyPLUS · December 9, 2012 09:42 AM

Quote from: Sheepy on December 9, 2012 08:33 AM
I hope none of you have to know what it's like having a petty criminal living nextdoor for the past whole your life.

My girlfriend lives in an run down area full of druggies and gangbangers. She deals with it everyday.

rtil · December 9, 2012 10:44 AM

my sister's husband - fiance at the time - was in the same building where a gang initiation took place where someone had to kill a random person in order to join a gang. it has a name but i forget what it was called. anyway, the innocent person had their door kicked in and was shot in the head, and the building was evacuated shortly after. he was pretty damn lucky to be alive that night.

naturally · December 9, 2012 11:25 AM

i grew up in the beaches of toronto. i don't really know if i would've rather grown up somewhere else, but i know i'd be a very different person if i did.

toronto's pretty great though.

bd648 · December 9, 2012 02:51 PM

Quote from: stusader on December 9, 2012 11:25 AM
i grew up in the beaches of toronto. i don't really know if i would've rather grown up somewhere else, but i know i'd be a very different person if i did.

toronto's pretty great though.

they have beaches there?

naturally · December 9, 2012 08:11 PM

Quote from: bd648 on December 9, 2012 02:51 PM
Quote from: stusader on December 9, 2012 11:25 AM
i grew up in the beaches of toronto. i don't really know if i would've rather grown up somewhere else, but i know i'd be a very different person if i did.

toronto's pretty great though.

they have beaches there?

http://bit.ly/TNIKwa

not like great beaches or anything, it's just on a lake. i didn't grow up next to the lake either, i just grew up in the neighbourhood.

Greenkitten · December 10, 2012 12:00 PM

Tittybong, Victoria, Australia.

Sheepy · December 10, 2012 01:06 PM

What an unfortunate name for a town in modern times.

Sinitron · December 11, 2012 01:09 AM

i grew up on a farm

it's nice and simple, very little bullshit, people are a little crude but upstanding generally and rarely cause any trouble with anyone

cities are generally full of scummy crooks and bastards