It's a few blocks from the Main Library, and I would have to say that the best feature about it is that the rent is dirt cheap. It's easy to see why. The house itself is incredibly old, and it looks every bit of it. The front "driveway" is a bizarre, bricked piece of land, where a car can be squeezed in, with the appropriate dose of insanity. The back yard is something of a desert, and the house itself has something of a bug problem. The swamp cooler only works about 5% of the time, making the upstairs (where my bedroom is) feel something close to a furnace. But, that's charm, right?
The neighborhood is pretty interesting as well.
Neighborhoods have always interested me. Their inhabitants, the collective mood, the houses, the cleanliness, the planning. Not only that, but there is an incredible amount of history to so many of these places, and most people seem completely oblivious to this fact.
My first goal, seeing that I am a new inhabitant of this neighborhood, will be an attempt to become acquainted with not only the people, but the houses, the mood, and the history of the neighborhood. I'm going to start with a fairly small scope (just my neighborhood block), but may expand the area depending on how things go. Something that interests me alot is the history, and for my first assignment, I'm going to pay a visit to the City County Building, as well as the Library to see if I can dig up any information about my city block.
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