There goes the neighborhood

One example of there goes the neighborhood in a good way is about my old neighborhood, right around Southport. When i was growing up, all the stores weren't upper class boutiques they were all mostly just regular shops with a few restaurants around the neighborhood. Let me paint a picture for you...it used to be a real estate office, an insurance office, a pizza restaurant, and an old toy store. not very up and coming is it? But then about 10 years ago it really started to change. All the stores became corporate upper class stores. Opposed to mostly family owned passed through generations stores. This was the beginning of many changes for the Southport area. When I lived there, there was very few children around my house. Contrary to today when theres hundreds of family's with kids living around Southport.

When I moved away the area started becoming the excellent neighborhood that it is know as today. I continued going to grade school right by Southport, at Hawthorne..(A lot of people reading this probably just said oh no..not another kid from Hawthorne.) but it really wasn't that bad. Something I really remember from that school though is after the school day was over. a big group of people would walk over to Southport either to just relax or to grab something to eat because there was so many choices around there and places to eat.

Today if you go to the Southport area, you'll find tons of stores, restaurants, numerous schools, not to mention the thousands of family's that live in that area. In the past 10 years the Southport area has gone through many changes in every aspect. So there goes the neighborhood, for the better. :)