(05-25-2016 12:35 PM)bluebacker Wrote:  He'll end up getting between $650 and $700 (unless another sucker comes along). You'd be surprised how many of those SW properties are rented nowadays.

They offered to pay City of Memphis property taxes if Willie / AC would just have let them go into Germantown. But, no and so now it'll be the inevitable and continued downward spiral for SW as is almost every property that gets annexed into Memphis.

The City has a moratorium on annexing any more neighborhoods but the real damage was already done with the consolidated school system.

Honestly, the City should start de-annexing areas. Raleigh, Frayser, Scenic Hills, Southwind are all exampled of the annexation blight. Hell, even the west side of Bartlett sucks because of Memphis.

It all stated with the well intended civil rights movement which turned into Change Everything We Don't Think Is Fair Or We'll Whine About It Until We Get Our Way Movement -- the worst of which was lowering the education standards in public schools which is exactly what led us to today.

Once standards begin to be compromised there is no bottom and now there's no going back

The problems with various areas of Memphis began when the powers that be decided to tear down all the public housing projects in midtown and disperse the residents to other areas of the city with federal housing subsidies. The areas along Raleigh-Lagrange became a center of Section 8 housing and all the drug users and low life people were dispersed out in the city. They brought their getto lifestyles and mentality with them. That was the beginning of the decline for "Raleigh/Bartlett" and the areas west of Austin Peay Hwy. I know because I have lived in this area since 1969. Should have pulled up stakes and moved years ago, but alas, my stupidity.

Any where you go in this city, you are, essentially 2 or 3 blocks away from a "bad area".

WTH do these posts have to do with the Tigers???????

The desirability of neighborhoods comes and goes. When I was a kid, people rushed to the suburbs. Now Millennials like my kid yearn for downtown living.

(05-26-2016 10:09 PM)tigers1125 Wrote:  WTH do these posts have to do with the Tigers???????

He's a beloved coach that graduated players and didn't cheat.

(05-26-2016 09:57 PM)mapdude Wrote:  

(05-25-2016 12:35 PM)bluebacker Wrote:  He'll end up getting between $650 and $700 (unless another sucker comes along). You'd be surprised how many of those SW properties are rented nowadays.

They offered to pay City of Memphis property taxes if Willie / AC would just have let them go into Germantown. But, no and so now it'll be the inevitable and continued downward spiral for SW as is almost every property that gets annexed into Memphis.

The City has a moratorium on annexing any more neighborhoods but the real damage was already done with the consolidated school system.

Honestly, the City should start de-annexing areas. Raleigh, Frayser, Scenic Hills, Southwind are all exampled of the annexation blight. Hell, even the west side of Bartlett sucks because of Memphis.

It all stated with the well intended civil rights movement which turned into Change Everything We Don't Think Is Fair Or We'll Whine About It Until We Get Our Way Movement -- the worst of which was lowering the education standards in public schools which is exactly what led us to today.

Once standards begin to be compromised there is no bottom and now there's no going back

The problems with various areas of Memphis began when the powers that be decided to tear down all the public housing projects in midtown and disperse the residents to other areas of the city with federal housing subsidies. The areas along Raleigh-Lagrange became a center of Section 8 housing and all the drug users and low life people were dispersed out in the city. They brought their getto lifestyles and mentality with them. That was the beginning of the decline for "Raleigh/Bartlett" and the areas west of Austin Peay Hwy. I know because I have lived in this area since 1969. Should have pulled up stakes and moved years ago, but alas, my stupidity.

Any where you go in this city, you are, essentially 2 or 3 blocks away from a "bad area".

The neighborhood a block away from where I live was tottering on the edge of undesirability at the time we moved into our current house, but now is among the hottest areas in town. I wish I could state I was smart to pick the location of my home, but in truth it was dumb luck.

(05-26-2016 10:46 PM)Tiger1983 Wrote:  The desirability of neighborhoods comes and goes. When I was a kid, people rushed to the suburbs. Now Millennials like my kid yearn for downtown living.

When you graduated college you rushed to the suburbs?

Most people I knew in the early 90s rented then bought in the city, then some moved out when their family needs favored the suburbs.

(05-27-2016 09:18 AM)BinghamptonNed Wrote:  

(05-26-2016 10:46 PM)Tiger1983 Wrote:  The desirability of neighborhoods comes and goes. When I was a kid, people rushed to the suburbs. Now Millennials like my kid yearn for downtown living.

When you graduated college you rushed to the suburbs?

Most people I knew in the early 90s rented then bought in the city, then some moved out when their family needs favored the suburbs.

When I graduated college I had $500 in total assets. I did not even own a car. I got married to the best person in the world, but we were poor in everything except love and prospects. Eventually, my wife and I scrimped and saved enough money to buy a house in the suburbs. We could not afford to live in the city until the mid 90's.

That area trending in the wrong direction fast

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(05-27-2016 09:50 AM)maximus Wrote:  That area trending in the wrong direction fast

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That Windyke neighborhood and the old Countrywood hood went down worse than Whitehaven did in the mid 80s

(05-27-2016 10:07 AM)Brother Bluto Wrote:  

(05-27-2016 09:50 AM)maximus Wrote:  That area trending in the wrong direction fast

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That Windyke neighborhood and the old Countrywood hood went down worse than Whitehaven did in the mid 80s

When I was a young boy growing up in the mean streets of East Bartlett in the early 1980's I thought Countrywood was as nice as Beverly Hills.

I was born/raised in East Memphis burbs but loved Lauderdale Courts best. It's where my fatherless cousins lived and babysat me while both parents worked.

Lauderdale Courts freaking rocked! Way better than East Memphis. Even for a toddler. lol Trips downtown to St Mary's cathedral, the River, the Library and that big pretty fountain were awesome!

I guess it don't rock no more, tho.

(05-27-2016 10:41 AM)3601 Wrote:  

(05-27-2016 10:07 AM)Brother Bluto Wrote:  

(05-27-2016 09:50 AM)maximus Wrote:  That area trending in the wrong direction fast

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That Windyke neighborhood and the old Countrywood hood went down worse than Whitehaven did in the mid 80s

When I was a young boy growing up in the mean streets of East Bartlett in the early 1980's I thought Countrywood was as nice as Beverly Hills.

East Bartlett was the sticks back in the 80's.

(05-27-2016 10:41 AM)3601 Wrote:  

(05-27-2016 10:07 AM)Brother Bluto Wrote:  

(05-27-2016 09:50 AM)maximus Wrote:  That area trending in the wrong direction fast

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That Windyke neighborhood and the old Countrywood hood went down worse than Whitehaven did in the mid 80s

When I was a young boy growing up in the mean streets of East Bartlett in the early 1980's I thought Countrywood was as nice as Beverly Hills.

Buddy of mine bought in Countrywood was the hot spot in the 70s. Still there. His daughter, who sells real estate, tells him to take up smoking and let a lit match do its thing.

(05-26-2016 10:09 PM)tigers1125 Wrote:  WTH do these posts have to do with the Tigers???????

Mods you move semi related Tiger posts but let this crap stay????

(05-27-2016 11:03 AM)tigers1125 Wrote:  

(05-26-2016 10:09 PM)tigers1125 Wrote:  WTH do these posts have to do with the Tigers???????

Mods you move semi related Tiger posts but let this crap stay????

See - this would be a perfect time to use the butthurt emoticon.

(05-27-2016 11:05 AM)tiger2000 Wrote:  

(05-27-2016 11:03 AM)tigers1125 Wrote:  

(05-26-2016 10:09 PM)tigers1125 Wrote:  WTH do these posts have to do with the Tigers???????

Mods you move semi related Tiger posts but let this crap stay????

See - this would be a perfect time to use the butthurt emoticon.

lmao. How come I wanna use one I've never used before...I mean it always seemed so crass, but....o heck why not.

Someone should start a poll. Maybe we could all agree on a butthurt emoticon. It would be a first!

Let the butthurt emoticon bring us together!

(05-25-2016 10:06 PM)tiger2000 Wrote:  

(05-25-2016 09:45 PM)cscottl1981 Wrote:  

(05-25-2016 05:43 PM)Davidofmtp Wrote:  A former 5 star house that never developed under it's owner.

The house must have been overrated.

Maybe they can pull one of these

I'm confident that house will live up to its potential in Rhode Island.

(05-27-2016 11:05 AM)tiger2000 Wrote:  

(05-27-2016 11:03 AM)tigers1125 Wrote:  

(05-26-2016 10:09 PM)tigers1125 Wrote:  WTH do these posts have to do with the Tigers???????

Mods you move semi related Tiger posts but let this crap stay????

See - this would be a perfect time to use the butthurt emoticon.

I was smart enough to move at right times. Tired of reading of you guys whining.

(05-27-2016 10:44 AM)tigerderek Wrote:  

(05-27-2016 10:41 AM)3601 Wrote:  

(05-27-2016 10:07 AM)Brother Bluto Wrote:  

(05-27-2016 09:50 AM)maximus Wrote:  That area trending in the wrong direction fast

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That Windyke neighborhood and the old Countrywood hood went down worse than Whitehaven did in the mid 80s

When I was a young boy growing up in the mean streets of East Bartlett in the early 1980's I thought Countrywood was as nice as Beverly Hills.

East Bartlett was the sticks back in the 80's.

You should have seen it in 1978. I thought my parents were out of their minds to move out there.

I remember riding in a car all the way out to Holly Hills to go swimming. I thought we were driving to Nashville.