The Good Things about Living in a Bad Area

A lot of people have to live in an area that they don't really want to, sometimes its an inevitable ladder that you have to start at the bottom of, a ladder that I know to be one of those cheap light-weight metal ones, that cut you when using them. It would be easier for me to tell you how much I dislike where I live and the bad points around me and how if I could only move I would be immediately, wonderfully happier... and the blue birds would sing and maybe there would even be a rainbow or a happy animal involved. Possibly someone would break out into song?  But that would be too easy and dull to read or write. "You can move at any time" you would say. Well fine, lets not do the easy thing.
But lets try this new thing. Positive thinking. Instead of me writing every thing I hate about living in a bad area, let us look at the good points about living here.

'Ronald McDonald Lady'

1. Need to get rid of something that you don't want or is too big to throw out. Write 'Free' on it and put it outside. Problem solved.
2. Low rent. More money to save.
3. Lots of Christmas lights, Halloween costumes and random little fairgrounds.
4. Lots of parks.
5. Lots of choice for takeaway. 
6. Unkempt gardens means amazing wildlife.
7. Indoors furniture, outside!
8. People watching from your front room. Pretty much your own personal soap.
9. Knowing people like 'Tattoo Stan', a man called 'Snakes' or 'Big Pete'.
10. Giving people you don't know names like 'Gin Bike Guy' and 'Ronald McDonald Lady'.
11. Cheap alcohol easily assessable.
12. Lots of churches and other buildings of worship if you want them.
13. Plenty of schools and children for your children to go to school with.
14. No regulated litter laws. For that bag in the wind situation.
15. Scrap men, here to collected all your unwanted, metal goods.
16. Second hand furniture shops, for the frugal, student or the broke among us.
17. Pretty trains sounds (proximity to train line required).
18. BBQ' and other bon-type-fires.
19. Some form of Woods near by.
20. Ability to go to the shops in PJ's and not stand out (never done this, but nice to know I can).
21. Lots of dogs, for the canine lover.
22. Lots of cats, for the feline lover.
23. In winter, its practically a ghost town.
24. Cool abandoned building to photograph.
25. No way of playing music in summer, no problem. Just open your windows.
26. Drama of fire trucks/ambulance/police.
27. Really sweet old people (no sarcasm in this one).
28. People moving in and out often, much more interesting neighbour.
29. Having a massive dog isn't seen as bad thing.
30. Having a fictional massive dog isn't a weird thing.
31. You will appreciate money.
32. Curby.

So, hey its not all bad! Even if some were a little sarcastic, I'm glad I've lived here because the world is a big and diverse place and not many people know the pros of these areas and they dismiss the people who live in bad areas as bad people, which isn't always true. And no matter how good or bad you think you have it, there will always be somewhere worse or better than you. So appreciate the one thing about living in any area. Your living.

Beautiful abandoned building

Please note that the works above were intended as a work of satire and if anything in any way offended you, it is unintended and apologize for.

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