Saturday, August 01, 2015
Bing beats boredom
Out of boredom I decided to list all the addresses where I'd lived, not counting parents. With assistance from Bing Maps, I was able to count 27 rented houses and apartments between 1970 and 1990. Left out a few highly temporary hippie-era crash pads, left in a couple that arguably belonged in that category. Couldn't draw a firm line.
At this temporal distance I've probably missed one or two places entirely.
Since 1990, only one address. Right here. First and only owned house. All paid for.
Bing's birds-eye made it easy to tell which structures have disappeared. Of the 27 known addresses, only 6 are gone, either vacant lots or replaced by commercial buildings. No obvious correlation with quality of house. Two of the six were modern apt buildings; one was unfit for habitation when I lived there; and three had been decent houses in the '70s. Presumably they declined later. The worst place of all, a little cement shack in SW OKC with a bathroom constantly flooded with sewage, is still there and seems to have been nicely flipped. OKC is the capital of inspired gentrification, so maybe that's not such a surprise.
Labels: Shack people - Cottage people, TMI
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