I wanted to say hi and thank you to Paul Pekin for the “Home” article [November 25]. Well here I am still in South Lakeview for over ten years and feel I’ve gone through as many changes in my home as you did for 35 years in yours. If I say I live in South Lakeview people gave me a blank look; when I say it’s near Lincoln, Ashland, and Belmont their expression changes to the constant saying “so Lakeview that’s on the way up.” I get a stomachache everytime I hear that and I have to use all my strength to hold myself back on giving my two hour speech. I was quoted in a now deceased activist newspaper “my neighborhood isn’t coming up, it’s moving out.”
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If you have read this far then you must have some understanding of my pain. The other response is what is wrong with her. Even a close friend of mine from out of state said to me “it’s real estate; you buy it, you sell it.” There is people here that feel as I do: renters and owners.
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