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Minute_Chipmunk250 t1_jdvo12r wrote

I wanna be hopeful about PR, but it feels like a lot to ask. Lived there a long time. Some cool stuff opened, but on the flip side the QOL issues seem to have gotten a lot worse since the pandemic and the opiod crisis took off. The farther east you are the better, but anything near Aramingo got kinda tough in the last few years. I’m crossing my fingers for the place even though I’m gone.

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vexedsinik t1_jdwgowr wrote

Yeah, thankfully, the block I'm on we all keep and eye out. We've caught people snooping mail boxes, stealing packages, and trying to wander into yards. All sorts of dumb shit. The homeless, the ones with addiction and untreated mental health problems, are making the area somewhat hellish. I used to walk around here as a kid without issue, now there are baggies and needles everywhere. Not to mention the "boom" parties, roving packs of bikes and other shit. It has gotten pretty fucked up.

Its kind of a "look nice" area now with a shitty under current. The ave has definitely been spilling over.

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estelle2839 t1_jdzw3rv wrote

Yeah I’m closer to Aramingo (because I thought I would be commuting to work via the el - clearly didn’t have COVID on my bingo card), and man I should’ve bought closer to Richmond St. Oh well! Just wish they weren’t ruining the 25 and 89 buses with the new draft network.

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