Comments on: Strength in Numbers, or not.

By: chicago Realtor

chicago Realtor — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:44:29 +0000

As a realtor live in downtown Chicago, I have seen the changes in the downtown area a lot, even just compare to 10 years ago, Chicago Downtown is a much fun place to go and visit, especially at night by the millennium park and the Navy pier, it is very safe.

By: adam

adam — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 01:06:54 +0000

i hope wordpress didn’t cut you off.

that’s hilarious and awesome that you would think of it as rebelling, too.

By: Iffy

Iffy — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 22:21:33 +0000

I know I live in “suburbia”, but I barely know my neighbors and don’t speak to them at all (except for one), but I do know that if someone pulled up a U-Haul and started pulling my stuff out, they’d know in a flash. And we don’t even have police. I like it a lot compared to Lombard. 5,000 people here. 40,000 there. I think I rebelled in my own little way by moving to a small-town. I think I’d even be happier if there were less people here. Kendra is from a town of

By: adam

adam — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 19:55:48 +0000

that’s definately a large part of the difference.
yeah, our new neighborhood less dense than your old neighborhood, you probably had 50-ish units in that building (compared to our dozen houses, only a couple of which have multiple apartments). our street in lakeview, though, had 3, 60+ unit buildings on each side of the street. it’s hard to really know that many people, no matter how long you live there.
i suppose you would still know your building fairly well, so maybe you’re right.

By: melanie

melanie — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 19:18:35 +0000

I disagree.

The old neighbourhood was unsafe due to its anonymity, yes. That’s not entirely due to the population density. That area is almost entirely rented, whereas our new neighbourhood is mostly owned. Renting tends to equal lots of people moving on a regular basis. Our current neighbourhood is still NOTHING compared to my condo back in Victoria, which I think was more densely populated than our current neighbourhood. The difference is that all the buildings were condos and everyone knew everyone else. If a friend tried to visit me and I didn’t go downstairs to meet them at the door, they’d be questioned on their way up – who were they here to see, why were they here, where were they going – you’d never see that in our current neighbourhood.

It was something that was noted way back during the industrial revolution. As soon as people became more transient and stopped knowing their neighbours, the crime rates shot up.