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Old 09-05-2007, 06:03 PM
 
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West of Rolling is ok but Saratoga has gone downhill. Look for the area around the Springfield CC. Most convenient, and best commute. The other side of Keen Mill is OK, but not as nice. My family moved there in 1964--I've seen the whole thing unfold.
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Old 09-07-2007, 09:26 AM
 
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Here's the center of the problem area, with an incumbent supervisor and Chairman of the Board who had made only token attempts to solve this problem and now have created a "strike force" at the 11th hour in an election year:

Times Community Newspapers - Problem apartments on back burner for strike team (broken link)

What's really sad is that most of the Springfield area in question consists of nice middle-class homes with long-time residents whose owners have invested a lot of time and money over the years to maintain and improve their properties, only to have uncontrolled low-income, frequently (perhaps mostly) illegal immigrants give their neighborhoods an undeserved bad reputation.
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