Do you like your neighbrorhood?

[mvd]

I picked: no - not horrible, but I want to leave. The one word to describe this neighborhood is boring.

[mvd]

1. Added an option for those isolated from other people

[fizzgig]

2. meh

it's a rather anonymous neighborhood, lots of renters. but it's quiet and in a good location, so i like it well enough

[datasuspect]

3. for the most part

centrally located, easy access to everything, right near the lake.

too many fratboys and yups though, but most of them are like blurry fields of entitlement anyway, so i don't trip, just ignore them.

[Darth_Kitten]

4. Today I do..........

some tagger hit one of our apartment blocks.

Stupid kids.

[Critters2]

5. What if it IS horrible? nt

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. My dear mvd...

I like my neighborhood a lot...

We've lived here a long time, and it suits us!

A quiet street, nice neighbors, and well-kept homes...

[triguy46]

7. We live in the country...

on the same farm for 27 years. We have the best crop of neighbors we have ever had. Finally. Enough with criminals, meth cookers, felons, family dysfunction, foreclosures... and that's just us!!!

[Kali]

10. ...

:rofl:

I know what you mean. No real neighbors here, either (within a couple miles, anyway) and it's been nice since my drunken sister and her various men left, even if I ended up with one of her kids.

[GRLMGC]

8. It's okay

It's kinda far away from the center of the city and I'd live somewhere else if I had the means but it's really not that bad.

[angrycarpenter]

9. I live in a small town

republican voting,deer hunting, Democrat hating, skoal dipping, red necks. Sometimes I really hate it here.

[txwhitedove]

11. Lovely neighborhood with old trees. Sadly, my stay is only...

temporary because I am house-sitting while my daughter and her husband work overseas for a year. It's a Red State in a really red area of the city, but no damages to my car with the DU sticker!

[greatauntoftriplets]

12. Small-town charm, big-city access.

It's great. A diverse community with great restaurants and boutique shopping. Shitty commute to work, but...them's the breaks.

[Wcross]

13. Rural & boring. Just the way I like it!

Can't see a neighbor. Can't hear what they are doing unless they are shooting. Never had any problems and I think its perfect here.

[wildhorses]

14. sounds like my neck of the woods --

everybody pretty much keeps to themselves and minds their own business.

[ghostsofgiants]

15. It's okay.

Lots of students, but not too rowdy, and the guys a few houses up have a flatbox for skateboarding, which is pretty awesome.

[grace0418]

16. My neighborhood is the thing that makes living in Chicago bearable for me.

Not that I hate Chicago, either, I've just wanted to live on the west coast for years and years. And I hate, loathe, despise winter. Actually, if I could pick up Chicago and relocate it to a spot in N. California I would be thrilled.

Anyway, my neighborhood is just perfect for me. I'm close to the el, close to the trains out to the burbs or downtown, close to 5 major bus routes, and close to Lake Shore Drive. I can walk to at least 20+ great restaurants--restaurants good enough to drive to even if I didn't live in this neighborhood. I can walk to a cute independent bookstore, several independent coffee shops, a cooking school, a fantastic cheese shop, a wine shop, a wonderful ice cream shop, several really great independent card/gift shops, a little movie theater, the Old Town School of Folk Music (which stages amazing concerts of all kinds of music, not just folk), a nice little park that holds a yearly music festival that I adore... and other things I'm sure I'm forgetting. It's a very pretty neighborhood, too, with tree-lined streets and nice old buildings. The people are from all walks of life and are more laid back than in other neighborhoods. It's homey but not boring, well-kept but not too posh, funky but not cooler-than-thou.

My street dead ends at a little pedestrian mall. There's a fountain, an outdoor cafe, and lots of activity. Musicians play free music a couple of nights a week in the summer and there are often little events sponsored by area businesses as well as street festivals sponsored by the alderman.

I can't even count the number of times we've strolled through the square at the end of our street and overheard someone say "I *love* this neighborhood! We should move here!" We got so lucky when we found our place here. If it were a little bit bigger with a yard and a garage, I'd be happy to stay here for as long as I live in Chicago. It's going to be very sad saying good-bye to our 'hood when we move. Sadly, in the 8 years we've lived here many other folks have discovered why we love it so much. So buying a home in this neighborhood is now out of the question for us, even with the substantial appreciation we'll get on our condo.

[Ediacara]

17. I like the neighborhood, it's just the city it's in....

Nice place to visit, terrible place to live.

[ironflange]

18. I like it

I loved it before the people back of us moved in. Just fell off the goddamn turnip truck, all of them, and their frigging stupid little dogs bark all the time. Even at us; I would think that after three years they'd know us, but nooooo, they even bark if they see us in the window. I've had it, I plan to complain to the city this week. They also scream at each other a lot, it used to be amusing, now it's just repetitious.

Thank you. End of rant.

[Jamastiene]

19. Considering I hate my hometown and still live here,

this is the best neighborhood here just because of the laid back attitude of my neighbors. At first, I had trouble with the Lynyrd Skynyrd one of them played at 2:30 a.m. but they don't seem to mind Courtney Love on my stereo at 3:00 a.m. They are keepers if they let me have my little say so about loud music in the middle of the night too. :evilgrin: Now, we all seem to live and let live. So, yeah, the neighborhood is great. Too bad it's not in a better city with more opportunities though.

[bridgit]

20. yeah, somewhere between 'i like it' & 'best ever', we live where allot of state workers...

come downtown to offices, and they take up all our parking moving their cars around every two hours to get out from under having to go into their own parking structures!! sheesh! but it's nice, not too busy, close to stores, services, great restaurants, cool clubs, art galleries, etc...i like it :)