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Originally Posted by exhdo1
Where did you live. If you love Newark, Ironbound perhaps! My bet is you didn't live up on the hill or out in the west district. If so I don't think you would be in a hurry to get back to those neighborhoods (the hill and west side). I also find it odd that you would make a statement like "I wouldn't have my city any other way" does that include the innocent bystanders getting shot in drive by shootings or just happen to be walking along and get caught up in all the gang B.S. Or all the dirt bags dealing dope that goes on in the "Renaissance City". I hope the school you go to isn't state funded because if it is MY tax payer dollars are not being very well served if thats what they are teaching. If your in college I would venture to guess that I've been working in your city before you were born. There is nothing you can tell me about Newark that I don't know. By the way there is no gang violence in my town so it's not everywhere. Lastly who are you to dictate where people should live. Don't you think that if a good majority of people that live in Newark could afford the suburbs they would get out in a second. Unfortunately many good peolpe are trapped in a real bad situation. How about all the dope dealers and gang bangers move out and leave the city for the good hard working people. Don't they teach you that in school.
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This is only for the quote above me. Now, I am NOT from the Ironbound Section. I am from the Vailsburg Section. The section that you said that I most certainly not from. The reason that i say that I wouldn't change my city is that I love it. It has taught me many things that I wouldn't have learned anywhere else. It has taught me how to survive. I'm sure that if I were to grow up in the suburbs, they would have taught me how to "survive" but, I have learned to adapt to new surroundings, to be strong and independent and to do whatever i may have to do in order to survive. I have learned to NEVER judge anyone. Many people used to hear that I was from Newark and think, "oh she'll never be anything more than what her environment suggests" and I love to prove them wrong. Yes, I am in college. Yes I do plan on raising my children that i want to have in the future in Newark, in the Vailsburg section. There are values there that aren't taught in any book and that cannot be taught in any classroom, they are called real-life lessons. So, you see the bad, and say "oh it's horrible there". I see the bad, I see the good, I live it everyday and I can promise you, that there isn't mindless killing there. If someone is killed, it is for a reason. Yes, there are some wrong place wrong time scenerios, but at least we don't have kids going to their high school's and trying to blow up a whole school or shoot up a whole school. That, you do realize happened in a good little suburban town. Yeah, I love my city, and I wouldn't have it any other way. and besides, Newark has great things to offer, if you would only look, but then again, most people wouldn't.
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01-18-2007, 09:28 AM
Where in WV?
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