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robzilla71173 t1_j4yda5s wrote

Reply to comment by kernelpanic789 in This subreddit seems pretty blind when it comes to Northern Springfield. by PixelSteel

I'm curious. Do you actually travel or live along division and see a lot of people walking around high on merh or are you just trying to use a metaphor you think will please this crowd? I ask because I grew up just off division and have lived between division and chestnut for 20 years as an adult and in nearly 40 years of traversing it on foot, bicycle, car, and flying over in airplanes I have never seen any of the drug fueled drama you kids seem to encounter. Maybe it's just that you guys run in a different crowd but I have to ask, where are you guys finding all the meth? Seriously, are you genuinely regularly running into meandering meth addicts in my neighborhood?

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PixelSteel OP t1_j4yihs0 wrote

As someone whose neighbor had their bike stolen and sawed off at the middle of the night, I can confirm this. I've had a lot of homeless people come up to me and ask for food, water, money, etc. Usually at the gas stations in northern Springfield.

I would recommend walking somewhere else for a change of space.

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robzilla71173 t1_j4ypr6c wrote

Yeah I don't think that confirms that division st is covered in meth fueled zombies. I don't know what to tell you, if you're hounded by poor people at gas stations, buy a tesla. Though unfortunately the good charging station is on north glenstone. If you don't like where you live then my suggestion would be to move. But your experience isnt universal. I grew up a few blocks away from Jefferson and division and never had any problems. My parents still live there and wouldn't trade their neighbors for the world.

I dated a Kickapoo girl once. Asked her why the whole family kept guns under their beds. Turns out their next door neighbor was Jon feeney. I'll take a stolen bike over that any day.

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MotherofaPickle t1_j50up1j wrote

Not in your exact area, but just south of there, yes.

And even more south of there…the amount of times I’ve had to call EMS for meth/heroin reasons (just south of downtown) is crazy to me.

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robzilla71173 t1_j510zgq wrote

So you're saying the reason I don't see all the meth addicts randomly roaming my neighborhood as this gentleman describes is that they're south of my north side neighborhood? And that it gets really bad once you go south of the middle of town?

I feel like there's a big difference in what people in this town consider the north and south side. I find it hard to consider south of downtown as the north side.

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