My goddamn upstairs neighbor

Kris, if you move to a part of bham with a 77k house, you will be a victim of crime in a very short period of time. Hopefully they just take your property, a lot of people are killed here.

bhamwiki.com/w/Birmingham_homicides_by_year

Those stats are just for the city limits. They don’t include the vast majority of the outlying ghettos, where the real crime is occurring.

So you are not permitted to leave that state?
You would not stay in a burning house would you?

Okay. I never even thought in those terms. You don’t get that in this country, ever unless you are an industrial farmer or bona fide wealthy.
My grandmothers sister bought the house I grew up on for something like 40.000, it’s worth well over a million now. Euro’s, she got it in guilders, which was about .4 to the euro on the transition in 2000.

Yes. There’s basically only once place I can go - the coast. That’s the only rural bits Holland has going for it. It’s a beautiful coastline, entirely unbroken for over a hundred kilometers and all broad, white sand beaches. So I need to get a car. Last time I had a Golf 3 TDI. It was fast and comfortable but made a lot of noise. Back when I got it diesel was still very cheap, and I used to drive for thousands of kilometers on a regular basis. Now it doesn’t make much sense anymore.

How big is that radius? What’s the greater area like? I was never in that city but I was in Savannah, and I got a quick impression of what it was like there behind the highway offramp and the greyhound station. A mild concussion and a good story richer I got in the bus to New Orleans. That was before Katrina, it was a pretty nice town, or had very large decent parts. Not anymore, I imagine.

Why is that?
I was planing a trip through part of the civil was area next year… not sure if I was going to go as far down as that.

My neighbor has been quiet for a while now. That happens, Sometimes he is gone for days. Sometimes he sleeps.
Yesterday I went to sleep before him, and I heard him roll out the wall-embedded thing and let it fall on the ground. I had forgotten about that. This was the first time I was in bed before twelve in over a year. The last time was in rural Spain, where there was absolutely no reason to stay up late. The stars, the quiet of the night, pressed me down to sleep. This living room on the first floor on north-northwest, everything about being here is keeping me awake.

Its just my own prejudiced opinion. It revolves around the largest cities there and the snobbery, crimes, attitudes found in them. Out of every 10 people I meet from there only one or two maybe don’t annoy the crap out of me. So you might want other opinions beside just mine.

Permitted? Is that all it takes to just get up and move to another state?

neighborhoodscout.com/neighb … dangerous/

I grew up in #7 on this list of most dangerous cities in America. It’s connected to #20, where I went to college and have lived most of my adult life. Now, I live in this one strip of heavily policed white-ville that’s sort of in between them. I can leave my apartment and be in the center of either one in 15 minutes.

The place I live now if hardcore when it comes to arresting black people who play music too loud. All my old friends who still live in the bad parts of town are afraid to come out here because if your car has a dent, they’ll pull you over and search you out here. It’s madness dude.

I’m eating boerenkool met worst. How I have missed this food. It is raining dogs suddenly so the Albert Heijn has put Boerenkool met Worst in the racks. Once in a while a good microwave dinner is all I need.

Kris - then what I’m left with to wonder is if you also annoy the hell out of these South Carolineans, or if it’s a one way deal. Can you say anything specific about their annoying nature?

But back to my Boerenkool, not to let it get cold. Rain smashing against the window, dark setting in. Candle burning on this enormous standard I bought, and like. Silhouettes of houses on the other side of the canal, geese are quiet…

I went to charleston south carolina once. Every single citizen of that state has a bumper sticker of the known racist image that we know as the confederate flag.

It means that they hold dear in their hearts the time that slaves were allowed to be owned and they could get rich off the backs of others.

They’ve even got a confederate history museum, celebrating the side that lost the civil war in the US. You know…the side that built it’s entire economy on the backs of slaves.

It’s miserable. I was only there so that I could get on a boat that was going to Bermuda that happened to be leaving from the port of charleston.

Fuk racialism mahn.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKcWtvEzdR8[/youtube]

I thik these guys are from Texas or something, but the funny thing is how they talk about the abolishment of slavery. “Yes, it’s good. For them.”

But I do not think that carrying a Federation flag is primarily a sign of racism. Rather of a mix of primitivism and fallen aristocracy, the losers of of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Fixed, that Borat clip was actually shot in Mississippi.

Ah. Yes it says so I think. So I guess you know what’s going on there.

Maybe you’re right in general about flying old flags, but the one I’m talking about is widely considered to be a symbol of racism.

There is literally no one flying that one anywhere who doesn’t also happen to hate black people. I know that correlations and causes aren’t the same thing or whatever, but when something gets elevated to the level of iconic status, that means it’s taken on a specific meaning. In this case, that meaning is bigotry.

Uum, Southern California not Carolina. :slight_smile:
I have never met anyone from Carolina.
And sure they probably found me just as annoying. Its a two way street.
Mr. R. You are the one that talks about making money this way and that and how easy it is, so finances cant be an issue. The only issue I can see is attachment otherwise nothing prevents leaving a harsh environment.

I’ve actually been packing for the last few days. I’m moving northing at the end of the year.

My preoccupation…
The people I liked in Southern California were mostly Latin or Korean.

I have met all but Asian from Southern California. Its just a cultural difference thing. Heck I wouldn’t make them second class just because they annoy me. As I said I am sure I annoyed them. I should mention that it includes a few cousins.