1.  The homeless are making themselves at home.  It started with benches and sidewalks.  Next door at the church, one or two used to sleep on the front porch.  Since the weather got warm, they spread blankets all over the front lawn like a kindergarten class having nap time.

2.  This place is trashed.  Plastic bags blow through like tumble weeds in a western movie.  Nobody thinks anything of throwing trash out of car windows or just dropping it on the ground as they walk down the street.

3.  Nobody can drive.  They turn without signaling, stop at every side street, ride your ass when they’re behind you, slow to a crawl when they’re in front of you, block up traffic on the interstate as they try to cut in line for the tunnel and nobody’s afraid to back right into your car while it’s parked along the street.

4.  Rent is going up while the building is going down.

More later…