--- "W. Kiernan" <wkiernan at ij.net> wrote:
One spot I passed a row of shiny brand-new
> upscale-looking
> townhouses, new asphalt and pavers out front, then
> not fifteen blocks
> later there were no lights coming from any of the
> buildings and all the
> windows were boarded up and painted black, and I
> smelled crack smoke out
> the alley down and to my left, which made my hair
> stand on end so I got
> right the Hell out of there.
>
You may have been in my old neighborhood. In the late 90s I lived about 8 (!) blocks east of the Library of Congress. DC's level of income disparity is amazing. I was the one white person on the block. There were crack houses on each corner. Nobody ever bugged me though.
Nu, zayats, pogodi!
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