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Missed the bid on the place next to mine by a few hours; this was while we were waiting for the contract to close on my current place. (Short sales take forever, and I had to move.) Should have gone in earlier and scooped it up, since it still took several months to close the sale -- and I could be renting out that place by now for mad cash flow.
Or then there was the time I was here for a conference in 2002. I signed up for a tour of condo conversions on 14th St., and remember thinking (a) "Abdo, what a weird name," and (b) "woah, good luck, even the urban pioneer in me doesn't see this hood getting much better." (Mind you, at the time my bike commute took me past a mile of housing projects on the south side of Chicago.) Now, well.
Or then there was the time I was here for a conference in 2002. I signed up for a tour of condo conversions on 14th St., and remember thinking (a) "Abdo, what a weird name," and (b) "woah, good luck, even the urban pioneer in me doesn't see this hood getting much better." (Mind you, at the time my bike commute took me past a mile of housing projects on the south side of Chicago.) Now, well.
14th and what? I guess you're talking about Columbia Heights?
To be fair, 14th Street from V all the way up to Spring road used to be rough circa 2002.
The change can sometimes be so gradual that it's tough to remember the way things used to be. It's like watching someone age that you see every day. You often don't notice it until you see a picture of them 10 years earlier.
It's obvious that the neighborhood is much better now, but I never considered it to be particularly bad in 2002. I had a friend that was living on Monroe Street in a basement unit at the time and that block was pretty gentrified then. Metro changed the game up there.
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