With the crime that you'd think you'd read about deeper in the Central District or even right there at that crack corner, I do believe that nicer area is cursed.
First, remember when I told you I left my old office at 18th & Madison at 2am, just in time to see that a crowd of bangers had gunned down a driver, who then careened across Madison into the opposing lanes and smashed into the bus transit shelter?
Next, there's an event that happened just last Summer..hang loose. That area is nicer where DD is and north.. this is only a few blocks away. I walk my dogs down those streets all the time.. in fact, was on the "party street" the morning before with the dogs. it's a "Transition" neighborhood, with homes valued between $750,000K to $2.5 million a few blocks north and a "crack, meth, $5 HO" corner just a few blocks south.. and those homes in between are very nice old stately homes that have become rentals since the owners are concerned about being so close to the sketchy corner to the south, but overall, it's a great neighborhood..
two blocks away just last year there was this other violent event, closer to the million dollar homes than the sketchy corner.... at the Miller Community Center.. (basically, a block from DD's new place)...
An apt fire downtown displaced the residents of a women's shelter. the entire apt building was gutted and since it was summer, all of the residents were moved temporarily into the Miller Community Center (kitting classes, political meetings, cub scouts, that's who meet there) until housing could be arranged...
a fellow who volunteered at the shelter was apparently dating one of the residents and he had wanted her and her child to move in with him instead of going to the emergency housing at the center, but she was also needing to escape him like she had escaped his husband/boyfriend that caused her to go to the shelter.. so she went to the shelter instead and called him to say she needed time to sort stuff out..
he showed up instead in this stately neighborhood demanding she come out and two social workers (a man and a woman) who were administering the emergency shelter came out to calm him down and keep him from entering .. he rifled them both down, before trying to get in the building, which was immediately locked with people screaming calling 9-1-1... he gunned himself down ..and only after it was over did they find out he was a convicted sex offender and abuser ... the agency that supplied the volunteers to the women's shelter was not doing background checks...
argh... so, we have all these sketchy areas where nothing happens and these nicer areas and the transition sections near them that have these events occur at... I think that area just south and east of DD is cursed...
that includes my building :)
Tio, kio okazus Vankuvere, restus Vankuvere. Urbo Vankuvero atendas....
(What happens in Vancouver, stays in Vancouver .. Vancouver awaits....)
