The only other 3 points of reference I can think of in my head would be: The houses in Risky Business Bad, Bad Leroy Brown by Jim Croce O'Hare airport.
But I still feel more informed knowing than not. (the weight i give that info is less than if it were, say, on the same block. But having spent some time in the Bronx, even that would be taken with a grain of salt. On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Dana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ummm... when I was in Chicago I stayed at two different hotels, one on > the Miracle Mile and one on Lakeshore Drive at the edge of Hyde Park. > The part of Hyde Park I saw (granted just a sliver) was light-years > from the sort of grittiness that I hear permeated Southside Chicago. > Could be wrong, but what I thnk is that this is what the reporter > intended, but he misunderstood. For instance, to pick a place I know > better, Capitol Hil in Washington DC is full of very gracious homes > close in where Senators and Supreme Court employees live, but the > eastern edges of it have public housing and open-air crack markets. So > if there were a drive-by shooting at the fringes say it would be > misleading to say that this was less than three miles from the home of > say Sandra Day O'Connor. (Not that I know that she keeps a place there > but let's say.) > > On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Jerry Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> haven't been following this thread, but I don't have any knowledge of >> where she lives. >> >> But over the course of the campaign, I have read multiple reports on >> the neighborhood and area that Obama lives in. Letting me know they >> are about 5 miles apart gets me closer to understanding the >> neighborhood than if it were in Brooklyn, or South Boston, or Portland >> OR. >> >> (My "understanding" may be completely off, but at least I have one >> point of comparison I would not otherwise have had) >> >> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Ian Skinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Dana wrote: >>>> oh man. >>> >>> Not to distract from the tragedy. >>> >>> But what possible relevance is there for this line? >>> >>> "about five miles from the home of the presidential candidate Barack Obama." >>> >>> >>> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:276896 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
