Comments on: There Goes the Neighborhood http://www.worstedwitch.com/2008/03/17/there-goes-the-neighborhood/ Crafting the Super-Natural Life Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:06:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: hele http://www.worstedwitch.com/2008/03/17/there-goes-the-neighborhood/#comment-64507 hele Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:49:12 +0000 http://www.worstedwitch.com/2008/03/17/there-goes-the-neighborhood/#comment-64507 I've just happily discovered your blog. Our neighborhood is also changing. The fields are getting smaller, the roads are being tarred and a huge train track is being built across the bottom meadows. There is nowhere to move now but out of town. I’ve just happily discovered your blog.

Our neighborhood is also changing. The fields are getting smaller, the roads are being tarred and a huge train track is being built across the bottom meadows. There is nowhere to move now but out of town.

]]> By: Philippa http://www.worstedwitch.com/2008/03/17/there-goes-the-neighborhood/#comment-64430 Philippa Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:11:40 +0000 http://www.worstedwitch.com/2008/03/17/there-goes-the-neighborhood/#comment-64430 My south London neighbourhood, which I have loved for five years, has just acquired its second estate agent. In the space of as many months. It also has a designer Italian kitchen shop, instead of the Portuguese deli which rarely had any food, but, when it did, made your heart stand still for a second, and my favourite curry house has changed its flock wallpaper and shelves of plastic plants for white, white, and white, and, I suspect, a different cook, as the brinjal bhajee hasn't been quite the same since. The people in the flat upstairs (who, actually, I'm pleased to see go) are trying to sell their flat to a developer, one of the (long-closed) local pubs has spawned umpteen studio flats, and the local friendly home-food restaurant has become a lounge bar. I think it's time to move, but just that thought makes my stomach turn over and my heart ache, like knowing that you have to face up to the loss of a loving, nurturing relationship somewhere along the way when you just weren't looking. My south London neighbourhood, which I have loved for five years, has just acquired its second estate agent. In the space of as many months. It also has a designer Italian kitchen shop, instead of the Portuguese deli which rarely had any food, but, when it did, made your heart stand still for a second, and my favourite curry house has changed its flock wallpaper and shelves of plastic plants for white, white, and white, and, I suspect, a different cook, as the brinjal bhajee hasn’t been quite the same since. The people in the flat upstairs (who, actually, I’m pleased to see go) are trying to sell their flat to a developer, one of the (long-closed) local pubs has spawned umpteen studio flats, and the local friendly home-food restaurant has become a lounge bar. I think it’s time to move, but just that thought makes my stomach turn over and my heart ache, like knowing that you have to face up to the loss of a loving, nurturing relationship somewhere along the way when you just weren’t looking.

]]> By: Julie http://www.worstedwitch.com/2008/03/17/there-goes-the-neighborhood/#comment-64418 Julie Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:03:39 +0000 http://www.worstedwitch.com/2008/03/17/there-goes-the-neighborhood/#comment-64418 I really enjoy your blog, it's blogs like yours that helps to make my path towards ecoism easier. Sorry to hear about your neighborhood. I live in Long Island City and I understand completely, all the nice neighbors in my small building have moved out and in their place, we have young surly, unfriendly, even quite rude people moving in. We don't have a Starbucks yet, but it's only time til they move in. Sigh! I really enjoy your blog, it’s blogs like yours that helps to make my path towards ecoism easier.

Sorry to hear about your neighborhood. I live in Long Island City and I understand completely, all the nice neighbors in my small building have moved out and in their place, we have young surly, unfriendly, even quite rude people moving in. We don’t have a Starbucks yet, but it’s only time til they move in. Sigh!

]]> By: kalen http://www.worstedwitch.com/2008/03/17/there-goes-the-neighborhood/#comment-64416 kalen Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:15:20 +0000 http://www.worstedwitch.com/2008/03/17/there-goes-the-neighborhood/#comment-64416 i'm always terrified that one day our peaceful, nice neighbors will be replaced with wild, loud, 10 children families that play awful music, smoke, and play baseball with trash in their yard. here's to hoping that never happens! i’m always terrified that one day our peaceful, nice neighbors will be replaced with wild, loud, 10 children families that play awful music, smoke, and play baseball with trash in their yard.

here’s to hoping that never happens!

]]> By: erin http://www.worstedwitch.com/2008/03/17/there-goes-the-neighborhood/#comment-64402 erin Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:15:14 +0000 http://www.worstedwitch.com/2008/03/17/there-goes-the-neighborhood/#comment-64402 oh...its so sad....and happening everywhere. the popular developer nightmare here in new mexico is legions of quickly built plywood homes then made to look like adobe....we call them plydobe. their gross. oh…its so sad….and happening everywhere. the popular developer nightmare here in new mexico is legions of quickly built plywood homes then made to look like adobe….we call them plydobe. their gross.

]]> By: matt http://www.worstedwitch.com/2008/03/17/there-goes-the-neighborhood/#comment-64388 matt Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:00:44 +0000 http://www.worstedwitch.com/2008/03/17/there-goes-the-neighborhood/#comment-64388 I feel your pain. We owned a condo in an older building, in our quiet SF Bay Area town. It was right in the middle of a bunch of really cool older Spanish-style homes, and other relics of the 1940s. And then people started selling to developers, and new ugly condos started popping up. No loud neighbors, just the non-stop din of construction. We moved and now have our own cool, little 40s bungalow on the other side of town. I feel your pain. We owned a condo in an older building, in our quiet SF Bay Area town. It was right in the middle of a bunch of really cool older Spanish-style homes, and other relics of the 1940s. And then people started selling to developers, and new ugly condos started popping up. No loud neighbors, just the non-stop din of construction.

We moved and now have our own cool, little 40s bungalow on the other side of town.

]]> By: craftydabbler http://www.worstedwitch.com/2008/03/17/there-goes-the-neighborhood/#comment-64382 craftydabbler Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:24:28 +0000 http://www.worstedwitch.com/2008/03/17/there-goes-the-neighborhood/#comment-64382 I'm sorry. One of my favorite neighborhoods is going through this right now. It used to be eclectic, art-full and interesting, now it is martini bars and clothes shops for 20-somethings. Sigh. I just make a point of going to the places I love as much as possible in hopes they will remain. I’m sorry. One of my favorite neighborhoods is going through this right now. It used to be eclectic, art-full and interesting, now it is martini bars and clothes shops for 20-somethings. Sigh. I just make a point of going to the places I love as much as possible in hopes they will remain.

]]> By: Juanita http://www.worstedwitch.com/2008/03/17/there-goes-the-neighborhood/#comment-64381 Juanita Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:59:44 +0000 http://www.worstedwitch.com/2008/03/17/there-goes-the-neighborhood/#comment-64381 So, my dear friend, is JC going to lose your inhabitance? So, my dear friend, is JC going to lose your inhabitance?

]]> By: Christina http://www.worstedwitch.com/2008/03/17/there-goes-the-neighborhood/#comment-64380 Christina Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:14:38 +0000 http://www.worstedwitch.com/2008/03/17/there-goes-the-neighborhood/#comment-64380 Ugh... why can't people just be a little more respectful. I hate inconsiderate neighbours.And as for that guy putting rubbish in the recycling bin, my blood would boil! Here in Ireland some people think "progress" is concreting over our beautiful countryside with ugly badly built suburban estates and bungalow blight. Poor planning and greed is destroying our country, so it's an infection that's spread here too :( Ugh… why can’t people just be a little more respectful. I hate inconsiderate neighbours.And as for that guy putting rubbish in the recycling bin, my blood would boil! Here in Ireland some people think “progress” is concreting over our beautiful countryside with ugly badly built suburban estates and bungalow blight. Poor planning and greed is destroying our country, so it’s an infection that’s spread here too :(

]]> By: Sheryl http://www.worstedwitch.com/2008/03/17/there-goes-the-neighborhood/#comment-64379 Sheryl Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:35:08 +0000 http://www.worstedwitch.com/2008/03/17/there-goes-the-neighborhood/#comment-64379 I had the pleasure of living in Europe for awhile and I miss it terribly. In so many cases they stuck to neighborhood classics and resisted "progress". That wonderful community living is very hard to find in the United States. I had the pleasure of living in Europe for awhile and I miss it terribly. In so many cases they stuck to neighborhood classics and resisted “progress”. That wonderful community living is very hard to find in the United States.

]]> By: Rory http://www.worstedwitch.com/2008/03/17/there-goes-the-neighborhood/#comment-64377 Rory Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:02:09 +0000 http://www.worstedwitch.com/2008/03/17/there-goes-the-neighborhood/#comment-64377 Though being new to Jersey City, I know exactly what you mean. I took the light rail home last night and it occurred to me that all new portions of JC are simply huge massive piles of concrete. No character, no life, and I can't imagine these places to be very homey and have a sense of community. Maybe we should be neighbors. I'm a maniacal recycler. Though being new to Jersey City, I know exactly what you mean. I took the light rail home last night and it occurred to me that all new portions of JC are simply huge massive piles of concrete. No character, no life, and I can’t imagine these places to be very homey and have a sense of community. Maybe we should be neighbors. I’m a maniacal recycler.

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