I was thinking Oak Cliff too!
Quick story: When we first moved to Texas and got our first place, we looked at an apartment complex in Oak Cliff. Now me, originating from Philly assumed that since they had a pool, it had to be nice ('cause up North Apartments with pools are high class!
) Even still I was a bit nervous. I actually saw a bullet shell on the ground
but ignored it because hey, they had a pool! Well, we got the apartment. When I got a paper route and told my co workers where I lived they were like "Dang! You ain't been robbed yet have you?"
I became nervous within a few days of living there because our next door neighbors door was openening and closing 24/7. It really started bothing me when everytime I came home there was someone leaning on my door obviously high. Keep in mind I was pregnant at the time and my daughter was 4. I grew up in Philly and my neighbors son was shot in front of our house from a drug deal gone bad so I didn't want to be in that environment!
Not to mention my kitchen always smelled like weed because of the smell coming through the vents from their apartments.
Long story short we broke our contract and gotthe heck out of there! While we were moving the police actually raided the apartment next door. Aparently they were part of some drug ring!
Then we moved to a little bit better area...."The Wood"
The cool thing was everyone knew my MIL and literally her house was one of 3 that didn't get robbed!
We live in Carrollton now! We moved on up!
My husband is so funny, he was like "It seems like the sun is brighter up here" (It really seems to be for some reason...we probably get less smog than south Dallas.
Now you would think that my husband being white would be terrified right? NOPE! I was the big chicken
(probably cause I know better!) That man ain't scared of nothing! He's my protector!
Well this turned into a long story! I have one I'll tell another time about how we went to the "Car Wash" that's really not a car wash!
Or the gas station with all the bars on the doors and the prositutes out front!
All this drama and I still can't get the man to see the need for a CELL PHONE!!!