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Location: East Central Pennsylvania/ Chicago for 6yrs.
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Originally Posted by goat314
^ Those Chicago infill examples look interesting, we get a similar red brick with white vinyl siding in St. Louis. I actually kind of hate it, because there is no imitating the original brownstones.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9066...qF9TwocbVQ!2e0
Found this interesting wood framed mostly Chicago Cottage homes but some are fill ins new with old.
Can't get all 11 homes in one Google streetview . So you will have to scowl to each side.
Corner
First Green home on left ....... built 1901
Next Tan home to right ..........built 1901
Next Tan home dark porch .....built 2001
Then Tan home light porch .... built 2007
Again tan green trim home .... built 1904
Then Brown home white trim.. built 2013
Next one yellow white porch ...built 2009
Another Lt Green white porch .built 2010
Then the short 1-story home ..built 1896
Next the gray white porch ..... built 2004
Another greenish home ......... built 1896
Big Tree
Price range is $300,000+ to $1,000,000+
Other side of street are originals and down the block.
Once again, maybe I am naive but I don't understand why people would choose to live in these crapholes. I have traveled all over this country and there are SO MANY possibilities, places you can move to where you could reinvent yourself. Driving through Kansas once, I remember thinking, just in that state alone, there are so many different places you could move to which are totally safe, offer great quality of life, very low cost of living, decent economy, I don't get it!
If you can afford to travel all over the country......then you are naive as to why people remain in those places....because you cannot relate to their poverty. Many of them cannot even afford to travel outside their metro area.
Once again, maybe I am naive but I don't understand why people would choose to live in these crapholes. I have traveled all over this country and there are SO MANY possibilities, places you can move to where you could reinvent yourself. Driving through Kansas once, I remember thinking, just in that state alone, there are so many different places you could move to which are totally safe, offer great quality of life, very low cost of living, decent economy, I don't get it!
A lot do. Why do you think those places are losing population?
Almost all projects I've ever seen look "ghetto" to me, whether they exist in sunny CA or somewhere in the Rust Belt, but Rust Belt cities definitely look worse to me......it's probably the crumbling infrastructure.
Almost all projects I've ever seen look "ghetto" to me, whether they exist in sunny CA or somewhere in the Rust Belt, but Rust Belt cities definitely look worse to me......it's probably the crumbling infrastructure.
where is that? I've seen most of Holyoke, haven't seen anything that looked quite like that, though plenty of decay there.
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