Living in the hood

For those of you that didn't know me or the rest of the Monforton Ohana back in the day, here's a little education.  The three Mofo girlies were born in the D-- straight up.  Detroit Rock City.  Joey, the oldest was borged in the Land of Polygamy.  That's right.  14 wives?  Yes sir.  Salt Lake Shitty. 

Hailing from the D, our neighborhood was nice (from what I remember).  Grosse Pointe (the "nice" part of the Detroit area) was literally across the street from our house.  In 2nd grade, my parents relocated the crew over to Bloomfield Hills.  This is where it gets tricky.

For whatever reason, I blame ignorance and general snobbery, people like to brag about where they're from, especially when there's some wealth in that particular hood.  I didn't realize this until high school however, Bloomfield Hills is a nice hood.  There have been films shot there, with lots of large homes, fancy cars, etc.



Essentially, BH is the creme de la crem if you know what I'm throwing down.  I believe a majority of Bloomfield's wealth was attributed to the car companies (and the execs of the Big Three that squatted there).

So here were are present day.  The greater Chicago land area.  Lots of nice towns.  Lots of people.  Here we go again..... a run-in with one of those ignorant people bragging about where he lives and how rich it is.  Go fuck yourself.  Really?  I wanted to interject this dude's monologue and let him know what's really up.  Fool.

To me, a nice area is a place to raise your family; a place with sidewalks to walk your dog and ride bikes.  As far as I know, and based on all the traveling I've done, I can pretty much say that no place in the Midwest will ever stack up to the cost of homes/living on either coast.  New York, San Fran, Seattle, etc.  I should go tell that guy that Elmhurst, IL is freaking Cabrini Green compared to some other places.

*The scariest movie ever, CANDYMAN, was filmed at Cabrini Green...... an old apartment complex in the city of Chicago, which has now been torn down*