Arch City wrote:The Central Scrutinizer wrote:He wasn't generalizing all of North County. He was speaking of his experience in Florrisant.
"OK, I'm going to come out of the closet and admit that I'm among those people who've moved out of North County."
Which says clearly NORTH COUNTY - not just unincorporated Florissant. His experiences, as he admits, were in Florissant. Why not simply say he had a problem with unincorporated
Florissant considering that his troubles were in unincorporated Florissant? Well his issues - in general - were with NoCo.
OK, I really apologize for starting this argument.
were in Florissant
No, actually, they were not.
To clarify things (and to clear my probably-no-longer-good name), I said "unincorporated Florissant" as a reference point -- "unincorporated" because we were "County" and not part of any muni. "Florissant" because our ZIP code was 63033 -- a Florissant code. I actually lived in the Black Jack area (all or most of which, IIRC, is covered by "Florissant" ZIP codes 63033 and 63034 according to the post office) -- off Old Halls Ferry Rd. I think Black Jack is or was planning to incorporate my neighborhood, if they haven't already. My inlaws lived in the Dellwood/Ferguson area. I attended HS in Spanish Lake. Most of my HS friends were from Spanish Lake, Bellefontaine Neighbors, Riverview or the Baden neighborhood of North City.
I absolutely, positively told myself I was not going to be one of those people who grew up in North County, then migrated to O'Fallon, verbally trashing NoCo as they left. Trust me, I've lived/worked/played with enough of those people to know I don't want to BE like that.
My original post -- and admittedly it was off topic to the subject of baggy pants
-- was in reply to the post about white migration out of the Hazelwood School District. Having lived in that district for a very long time, I really had strong but mixed emotions on reading the article -- hopeful, sad, etc.
Just an FYI on the Hazelwood District - "Hazelwood" is a misnomer. The district is geographically huge, spreading from Hazelwood and almost-Bridgeton in the west to the Mississippi River in Spanish Lake to the east, and from the Missouri River in the North to areas south of 270 abutting the Riverview Gardens and Ferguson-Florissant districts in the south. The Ferguson-Florissant district encompasses much of the "traditional" city of Florissant, but other than that, I think Hazelwood has almost all the land area north of 270, plus a little bit south of 270.
