Actually part of it was a planned story from last year on the new grocery store before the hardfolk led to disappointment and discouragement. I already had the pictures ready to go just never did the story...which would have included bragging about the low prices and the means they were using to achieve them. Now over a year later there are higher prices and no sales just marked down reduced items. I think I had three stories on the back burner sitting there waiting for me to get reinvigorated. I still have one more to do yet where I'll use some pictures from last year and incorporate some from this year.

This story folded out after they had completed a pretty good chunk of the outside of the housing unit across the street from the DG store, I realized the stark differences and went on a journey of taking pictures over a two, three week span as I frequented the spots listed. Like once I noticed all the trash around the speedway outside the next time I went to DG I took pictures of theirs. One trip to the market would entail having to take pictures from all angles of the building to go with the story and the one's I had of the inside.

Then I put it all together over a weeks time working on it here or there on the steemit interface. You know you can do that right?....if you leave it it will be there right where you left it when you come back. With all the other interfaces you don't need to worry if you come up with another idea you'd like to do as you can use them instead. I don't know how much actual time it took as much of it was just done at my convenience when I had time to gather or write.

I can't say that all this gentrification hasn't helped my bottom line as it has, particularly that I own a duplex about a mile or little over there's about which has drastically increased the worth of my property. The part I am not really that thrilled about is the more they displace people closer to the gentrification area the more they push them my way. Sure there are many really old dumpy slum lord housing being torn apart and rehabilitated down there also it's coming to take quite some time for them to get to the ones around here. For a long time things around here were improving based just on the college kids where investors were buying up these homes after the crash and turning them into rentals for them, which removed a lot of the trouble spots.

For many years after I bought my house I use to say I lived on the border line, fifty thousand and up behind me to fifty thousand and down in front of me...(though I paid more than fifty thousand). Now I feel more like the college kids and I are more of a fortified defensive line while the offense continues from downtown. Though there is good people in that mix stuck in between there's also all the crack addicts and drunks, with crack comes violence, usually they also like me like to be up and about in the middle of the night so I just don't feel as safe deciding to take my dog for a walk at two a.m.. We have a crack house right around the corner, I feel story for the people who live downstairs from them who've been there way since before I bought my house. They are dirty, vile, scream, holler, argue and you often see them passed out sleeping in the morning on other people's property. It's sort of a isolated block as it's more like an island formed by the highway that went in years back than a whole block with just a couple two, three houses that sit there, theirs attached to an old pizza place that sits empty and next to that an old building used as a Spanish church. They are able because of it's location to peddle crack without much notice and will usually use the space in front of the old pizza place to make it look like they aren't dealing directly from their house. I've seen it a number of times young white kids pulling up there and them approaching their cars....there's only one reason for that. When they are all junked up and you hear screaming going on ain't nobody going to be walking their dog passed that taking a chance someone may actually have a weapon and start shooting. I've just had to much happen in my life to go by a "what are the chances" some weird unfortunate thing is going to happen, no I lost that confidence a long, long time ago. lol.