Would you rather live in the neighborhood in my signature or the Bronx?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Would you rather live in the neighborhood in my signature or the Bronx?

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

The bronx

[Sam Spade]

The Bronx is gentrifying right before our very eyes.  It's even starting to make its way towards to the really bad parts.

[WiseGuy]

The one in your sig

[angus]

That East Moline?  We actually drove through East Moline a couple of weeks ago when we exited for fuel from IH74 just after getting across the river bridge.  And I must say I wasn't that impressed.  And in fact, except for their wonderful roadside rest areas, my wife and I were thoroughly put off by what we saw of the entire state.  (The Illinois rest areas, of course, are the best in the nation.  On my last trip I saw a common water snake, an Eastern Bluebird, several cats, and a huge frog.  They're like a goddamned zoo, except free.  Also, they have slides and swings and see-saws.  Louis loved that.  And very clean bathrooms.  But I digress.)  East Moline is unimpressive, but at least your photo is a realistic and representative of what we saw there.  The Bronx, on the other hand, is somewhere I have always enjoyed visiting.  I remember I rode around the Bronx regularly on my bicycle the summer I lived in Manhattan.  Don't get me wrong, I like dodging the traffic better in Manhattan than in the Bronx, but I do enjoy hanging in the Bronx.  In fact, I think I went on and on about the Yankees games I attended and how exciting they were.  Also, there was that weird "Slow Rider" moment I had in the park just across from Yankee Stadium.  It must have lasted forever.  Like a nine-second orgasm.  That good.  Well, not really, but pretty good.  I know I must have mentioned the "Slow Rider" day here, because during that period I was spending about an hour every day at the Columbia main library posting on this forum.  Mostly just to beat the heat.  Our tiny little 16-th floor Manhattan apartment wasn't the best place to be at 3:00 in the afternoon.   And certainly, at some point, I must have mentioned the freaks and those two nice puertoriquenos who burned a joint with me during my very first trip to the Bronx some 15 years ago.

Bronx, for sure.

[angus]

Ah, sh**t.  I see it's newburgh.  You sig is very misleading.

Well, I don't know newburgh.  But I'll take Bronx over East Moline.

[MODU]

The bronx.  A friend of mine owns a lovely apartment complex down there, and it is quite clean and relatively crime-free.

[Speed of Sound]

The bronx. That place in your sig is just plain pathetic.

[DownWithTheLeft]

Considering the one in your signature looks abandoned I'd choose it as death would not be imminent

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Hmm, I haven't been to that part of Newburgh.