He has asked me to look for some of the older, well-built homes for him, |
I reviewed the textbook and I liked what I saw. I saw an academic text that steers clear of being a devotional text. |
It doesn't have all that now, but if you can bring hard-working people with the right values into the neighborhood, they will demand and help create good services and a safe environment. I think it will become a wonderful neighborhood for children again. |
It was a neighborhood of working-class people, many who owned their own businesses, ... Even if it didn't cut through their home, if it forced their business to close or move, they usually had to move. |
It was so pretty I told him that I needed to sell the house I'm in now and move into that one. He laughed and said maybe someday, but right now 'you just don't run fast enough to be able to live in that neighborhood.' |
Some of that is true. We have some violence, maybe more than some other parts of the city. But I believe it is an area that is coming back. |
That's what they did in other parts of the city. It's the same formula, |
The house my brother bought there is so beautiful -- it was built by Fred and Nellie Briers and is this large, family-style house with gorgeous, hardwood floors that probably would have cost at least $150,000 if it would have been in another part of town, |