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Uh, wow, that house is huge. What is the town and neighborhood like? This is crazy...

Vivtek 18y ago
Richmond is a town of about 20,000 people, rust belt, some local industry still surviving. It has Earlham College, a Quaker liberal arts college. In terms of "scene", well, from comments here I'm sure all you young urbanite whippersnappers would be disappointed. In terms of sending my daughter to Earlham College for classes at $100/credit hour through the local high school's talented-students program, though, I'm totally pumped. Also the concept of not paying rent or mortgage at all, well -- thank God I can work entirely online, but y'know? This is really working for me. Yes, the huge is freaking huge. I didn't actually think to look at aerial photography until after I'd bought it. I could probably start my own artist's colony just with the one house. Or hacker colony, whatever the hell that means. I guess with a big enough pipe, that would work out. See the half-hexagonal bay window structure on the second floor? That's going to be the library. The neighborhood is mostly blue-collar, mostly rentals now. In the early 1900's, or 1890, when this house was built, it was the Place to be Seen. I'm told there's a slight trend towards gentrification; these houses are truly stunning, and they built them to last. I guess for the sake of fairness, I should quote city-data.com: 2007: Murders 0.0 Rapes 37.7 Robberies 153.5 Assaults 255.9 Burglaries 1220.1 Thefts 3668.3 Auto thefts 323.2 Arson 115.8
- fortes 18y ago
  Wow -- that seems like a lot of rapes and other crimes for such a small town (20k).
  - hollerith 18y ago
    it's probably rapes per 100,000 residents.
  - Vivtek 18y ago
    Ha, yes, it was adjusted to per-100,000 to match the stats quoted above for Detroit. It was a lot of theft, though. I don't think I want to open a gas station there.

Richmond is a town of about 20,000 people, rust belt, some local industry still surviving. It has Earlham College, a Quaker liberal arts college. In terms of "scene", well, from comments here I'm sure all you young urbanite whippersnappers would be disappointed. In terms of sending my daughter to Earlham College for classes at $100/credit hour through the local high school's talented-students program, though, I'm totally pumped. Also the concept of not paying rent or mortgage at all, well -- thank God I can work entirely online, but y'know? This is really working for me. Yes, the huge is freaking huge. I didn't actually think to look at aerial photography until after I'd bought it. I could probably start my own artist's colony just with the one house. Or hacker colony, whatever the hell that means. I guess with a big enough pipe, that would work out. See the half-hexagonal bay window structure on the second floor? That's going to be the library. The neighborhood is mostly blue-collar, mostly rentals now. In the early 1900's, or 1890, when this house was built, it was the Place to be Seen. I'm told there's a slight trend towards gentrification; these houses are truly stunning, and they built them to last. I guess for the sake of fairness, I should quote city-data.com: 2007: Murders 0.0 Rapes 37.7 Robberies 153.5 Assaults 255.9 Burglaries 1220.1 Thefts 3668.3 Auto thefts 323.2 Arson 115.8

fortes 18y ago
Wow -- that seems like a lot of rapes and other crimes for such a small town (20k).
- hollerith 18y ago
  it's probably rapes per 100,000 residents.
- Vivtek 18y ago
  Ha, yes, it was adjusted to per-100,000 to match the stats quoted above for Detroit. It was a lot of theft, though. I don't think I want to open a gas station there.