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[HakunaMatata]

There's a road in my city, Alum Rock, that I find to be the strangest, most fascinating road there is here.

One end there's a high school that many consider to be definitely on the lower end of the district; sadly, it's highly looked down upon because of both poor building structures and really low test scores. Not to mention this high school has the highest pregnancy rate in the state.

Now, go on the other end of Alum Rock, and you have the country club. I've been up there once, and it was freaking GORGEOUS. Like, I never knew scenery like that even existed in my city. Inside, there were elegantly decorated tables, and delicious food, and....oh goodness, it was just so pretty.

But I remember driving from the "poor end" to the "rich end" and literally seeing this slow transformation from badly paved road to lush trees along the now one-way street. I had never been to that end of Alum Rock, and it was like culture shock. It made me so sad how on one end, there's all the luxuries in the world and at the other just....lower-class normalcy.