JIMBOB2's Blog

I'm growing old close to where I grew up.The neighborhood sure has changed.When I was a kid nothing was ever locked up.The car,the house...nothing.Nobody had a master lock,security light,or a ring full of keys.If it wasn't yours,you left it alone.The houses were painted,yards mowed,and flowers planted.Most everybody had a small garden behind their house that the whole family worked in.We neighborhood kids played everywhere.In the streets,we moved when one of the few cars would come by,at the parks we played,in the woods.We had to be home for dinner and supper and before dark,that's if all our chores were done.Never any problems,no fears,we all got along.Kids,parents,families,we all got along.......Now most of the houses are rental properties.I've not got a thing against somebody renting but it seems a few try to trash the whole neighborhood.They move in and in a little while instead of a couple people there's 6 and 6 cars.Cars in the driveway,the yard,and the street.Sofas and car seats on the front porch,yard never mowed because they would have to pick the trash up to mow and barking dogs.I guess they look at it as transient housing,they'll stay there till they tear it down and move on to the next one.You always hope for better when the new ones move in but soon you wish the old ones had stayed.I don't know with these old sections of town,how they'll end up.I guess they will keep going down as long as the landlords have a grip on them.