Do you have kids?
Sounds like a shitty neighborhood............ Hopefully you're renting.
It's one of those deals where it was a great neighborhood when we moved in, but the town itself was only slightly above average, yet had a VERY high opinion of itself...real big on appearances, light on substance. The town has many other residents and me pissed over this budget bullshit (long story about small-town corruption while no one is paying attention).
Yeah, got an 8-year-old girl. I bought one house - I've paid about $180K into it and as of today, it would sell for about what I paid for it 3 years ago - and I'm renting another up on the country club side and was about 10 days from closing on a purchase when all this budget stuff came out for the town that made me say fuck this place. And now they're saying they can collect the extra utility tax - a campaign for which they funded with TAX money - from all residents of the city, renters or homeowners.
When the foreclosures began to roll in, this neighborhood crashed the most, IMO, because it had the furthest to fall due to being the most overpriced and filled with people who took out lines of credit on homes they couldn't afford in order to buy shit they couldn't afford. And now, thanks to the Obama-Pelosi mindset, the rest of us get to pay for it.
America needs a serious wake-up call, because as things stand, fewer and fewer of us control our own destiny.