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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.

[*StanleyThePanda*]

Oh gosh, yeah. I know what you mean. I know of a couple of roads like that.
It is pretty sad.

[*IVIike*]

I know what you're talking about also theres a lot of roads like that in philly i'm so glad i don't live in the city

[Jeng]

Same goes here, I live in the south of the town, where it looks 'poorer' and up in the north of the town is like all the nice neighborhoods. It's all considered a nice town, like a really nice town, but it's split and bahh.

[Señorita Semi-Au...]

I love your threads, Kayce.

I work in Houston's suburbia where rich white women drive three cars and their kids are dressed in the latest fashions. I live outside of the suburbs in a very rural town where you make friendly conversation with store owners, people drive pick-ups, and rush hour is when the construction workers go to lunch. It's a 30 minute ride, but the qaulity of the people is amazingly different. I don't know when people will live for greater good and happiness and stop living for money.

[*I Shot JFK*]

At least you can drive down the street, and there isn't like, a massive fence down the middle...

I kind of thought of it as symbolic, you know? Like, you can work your way up the street

[Smoogrish]

Over here, it's not really roads.. it's a whole county.

From "The Mean Streets of MoCo" (a facebook group):
"One of the few counties where there's a ghetto area (Wheaton, Silver Spring), there's a rich as anything area (Bethesda, Potomac), the boonies [a.k.a. country] (Damascus, Poolesville, [Darnestown]) [and a super-liberal hippie village (Takoma Park)] all crammed together."

[oXMuhNirvanaXo]

I was thinking Eminem..

Hahaha

[HakunaMatata]

I love your threads, Kayce.

I work in Houston's suburbia where rich white women drive three cars and their kids are dressed in the latest fashions. I live outside of the suburbs in a very rural town where you make friendly conversation with store owners, people drive pick-ups, and rush hour is when the construction workers go to lunch. It's a 30 minute ride, but the qaulity of the people is amazingly different. I don't know when people will live for greater good and happiness and stop living for money.

Well, then there's the argubility of which side really has the better quality of life. I mean, who says that making friendly conversation is so bad (I know you wouldn't )? Honestly, I never realized how "bad" the area that I live near is until I went to the country club.

At least you can drive down the street, and there isn't like, a massive fence down the middle...

I kind of thought of it as symbolic, you know? Like, you can work your way up the street

Heh. I had neverthought of it that way. Unfortunately, there's the major exclusivity of the "rich end". There's maybe a 40:1 ratio, honestly.

[*I Shot JFK*]

Well... exclusivity is why we must lead the world in a glorious Communist revolution and shoot the rich!

Or possibly just like, improve welfare?

[*WHIMSICAL 0NE*]

We have a lot of roads like that. We have a lot of neighborhoods like that too, and cities. I live in a village, so it's obviously not that big but it's worse than people realize. We don't have any gated communities here but we do have a lot of run down places.

[iDecay]

I was thinking Eminem..

Hahaha

Me too.


I really can't relate to this. Basically everywhere here is like.. ghetto. I don't really recognize streets since I basically sleep most of the time I'm in the car. But, there is this one town though. The name isn't coming to me, but I guess that's not really important right now. So, anyways, I'd be passing by this town and it looks pretty damn.. ghetto. Then we go drive in more towards Pasadena, Arcadia, etc and there's just a huge difference. All the houses are nicer, all the streets seem quieter.. Kind of the opposite from where I live. I don't really see a chance in people since the only place I go to there is the mall, but the way everything looks.. You'd forget that 20 minutes away, there's some effed up town that has lots of gangs and all of that.

I don't think my post made much sense. I'm just rambling.