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Just a curious note about different types of housing, and different styles. To me this is more interesting than the fancy architecture you see in the city centres. If you click on the map link I posted above and go to street view and have a look around, people from different countries will have different ideas about what sort of neighbouhood it is by looking at the houses.

When I was growing up it was one of those rough neighbourhoods at the lower end of the socio-economic ladder. In Australia that's pretty much as close as you'll get to what Europeans call a slum or a ghetto. It has improved in recent decades according to hearsay but going by news reports it's still an area with a large rough element.

A lot of houses in similar suburbs in the eastern states are built with what we call Weather Board, picture below. I noticed this is popular in the northern americas as well, I assume because it's cheap. Here all the houses are brick because of termites. There's also some pretty strict building regulations about housing foundations because of the termites, so weather board houses looked a bit weird to me the first time I saw them.

Added bonus with brick houses - they're a little less prone to bursting in to flames in a bush fire.

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

The city in California I left some 15 years ago has grown so much that most construction must go up rather than spread out over countryside that is no longer there. Everything has been overdeveloped. I couldn't imagine living there now with so many people and so much traffic.

Where in Cali?

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

Just a curious note about different types of housing, and different styles. To me this is more interesting than the fancy architecture you see in the city centres. If you click on the map link I posted above and go to street view and have a look around, people from different countries will have different ideas about what sort of neighbouhood it is by looking at the houses.

When I was growing up it was one of those rough neighbourhoods at the lower end of the socio-economic ladder. In Australia that's pretty much as close as you'll get to what Europeans call a slum or a ghetto. It has improved in recent decades according to hearsay but going by news reports it's still an area with a large rough element.

A lot of houses in similar suburbs in the eastern states are built with what we call Weather Board, picture below. I noticed this is popular in the northern americas as well, I assume because it's cheap. Here all the houses are brick because of termites. There's also some pretty strict building regulations about housing foundations because of the termites, so weather board houses looked a bit weird to me the first time I saw them.

Added bonus with brick houses - they're a little less prone to bursting in to flames in a bush fire.

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That's really pretty. It looks like something that would be in a coastal town

 

[Judge]

Where in Cali?

Walnut Creek, Concord and Pleasant Hill.

Though I could say the same for Pinole, though it isn't built up like the Diablo Valley has become. I've also lived briefly in San Diego, San Mateo and Sacramento over the years.

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

Walnut Creek, Concord and Pleasant Hill.

Though I could say the same for Pinole, though it isn't built up like the Diablo Valley has become. I've also lived briefly in San Diego, San Mateo and Sacramento over the years.

I know several of those places

I grew up in California, in the Southern California high desert. But I have traveled and lived all over.

 

[SusanLR]

I've Googled Earth several times over Phoenix and it is too big now.
Wouldn't want to go back.
Our house I was born into is gone. Apartments and a new neighborhood now.
It was bounded to the south by a field of horses back then and more fields for grazing behind the house to the west.

The hospital I was born in was torn down and a new cancer hospital put in its place.
One strange thing that is still there, last I looked, is the small grocery store on McDowell where we shopped all the time. It was only a few blocks away.
How it survived, I don't know. Everything else is gone and rebuilt.

The area my parents were living in when I was conceived is closer to Tucson.
In the desert, bordering a reservation.
This is a picture of the beautiful mission that was only about a mile from where they lived. It is still a tourist attraction.

Mission San Xavier-La Paloma Blanca

And this is really vintage:
The Remuda Dude Ranch. My mother worked there as a maid at the time.
It is now a retreat for helping troubled teens. All rebuilt and new.
Then:

circa 1956.

 

[NDR2]

You can never go home, it's not there any more. Even if you've only been gone a year, when you get back it's all changed, or your perspective has changed, or both.

Even though I live in the same city again I haven't bothered visiting the suburb that I grew up in, what's the point? I did use google maps in satellite view and street view to have a look at the house I grew up in though. All the fruit trees are gone and the back yard is just bare dirt but the lounge room still has the vertical blinds that my mother had installed in the 70s.

57 Margaret Ave.
https://www.google.com.au/maps/plac...d138.6441302!16s/g/11c1drftqh?hl=en&entry=ttu

Exactly. We all change and our lifestyles can change. For example, when we moved I wasn’t a vegetarian yet. I don’t remember any health food stores in our old neighborhood, and I don’t know of any around there now. So even if I could have the old house back it would probably be too inconvenient. (Still, part of me wonders what things would have been like if we had stayed.)

Also, being on the spectrum, we’ve probably all had our share of hardships growing up. So thinking about home can bring up some unpleasant memories as well.

 

[Kaz2012]

Lodz, Poland in 1970 - decade I was born and lived there until we came to Australia in 1980.