You live a very strange neighborhood
Basically about 15x20 or so blocks of gentrification... On two sides there are "main roads" where the other side turns into badlands (east and south), and to the west you have "old white people." To the north, you have a couple of large parks, more gentrification, and then an interstate, then the new gay district, and a couple of interstates. To the south and east, I'll see tracers if I look outside on major holidays. I haven't in a few years. Next door neighbor just had his roof done - several bullet holes, but not all the way through.
My immediate neighborhood is younger folks, mix of hetero and gay, a few minorities, and they tend to be socially conscious, etc., and work the hell out of the social caste system.
