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To use the common word in this thread, WHOA. </p>
<p>UCA, have you seen this so called wasteland in recent years? It is gentrifying rapidly. Just because it has become a middle class african american neighborhood does not mean it is rough. Believe it or not, some neighborhoods of color can be quite attractive and safe. (sarcasm deliberate)</p>
<p>That said, this newcomer to our section from UCLA has some strange ideas - “posh environment of the U of Chicago”, when you can’t even buy basic clothing within a three mile radius? </p>
<p>When the opening of a Barnes and Noble bookstore was greeted as a great improvement for the neighborhood?</p>
<p>When the crime rate of neighborhoods to the south and west speak for themselves? Perhaps this poster remembers the day when neighborhoods like South Shore were in fact up and coming. That was, unfortunately, before many of the poor folks living in the projects were forced out by demolition and settled there or further south.</p>