"No more talking about the homeless"

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We bought the house next door to us for $5,000. We had to gut it and put in new windows and doors. It was vandalized in the middle. Then since it took for ever the city wanted a bunch of stupid picky stuff done. My daughter bought the house from us and is happily living there at a fraction of what it would cost in a fancy neighborhood. Because we live in a bad neighborhood, her kids get to go to the high end schools because they are smart enough to test into them. Our local grocery store has a lot of mark downs. We figured out the mark downs are coming in from high end neighborhoods because mark downs don’t sell... if you know how you CAN live cheap even in a brick and stick. We are in our van now and will soon be hitting the road. We did have to promise small children we would come back once in a while so they know we aren’t dead, too.

Doing all the labor gutting it ourselves and putting in all new everything we had around $20,000 in that house. There were houses in Indianapolis cheaper than what we paid. This town has more empty houses than Detroit... they leveled theirs. There are empty apartment complexes. Empty old factories. Empty schools and stores. Fishers is the next place up is winning awards for the best place in the United States to live. Go figure... We have Mexican neighbors and black neighbors, white people here, old people... The Mexican neighbors are polite and they turn off their parties around 10. I don’t mind. The black lady next door is a sweet heart. I don’t know about some of the other people down the block. I just don’t know them. Our mechanic is a nice young family man from Mexico. I hope he can stay he does good work. Who is going to do roofs? Indianapolis has a lot of weather related roofing jobs.... tree cutting? Nobody wants to do that. Costs a fortune to have it all done these days.