Sunday, October 16, 2011

My Neighborhood in Berkeley


The surrounding area of my neighborhood in the middle of Berkeley is mostly diverse, because many stores and schools are mostly mixed racially. In some neighborhoods in Berkeley, there are only one or two types of communities; in my neighborhood, there are all different cultures. In order to compare my neighborhood in Berkeley to other neighborhoods, we would have to compare the wealth in the different neighborhoods. For example, in West Berkeley there are some dilapidated places, because some owners do not take care of their renter’s homes. In East Berkeley area, near the campus, is the rich area, which has fancy homes and very little diversity. My cousin is a real estate agent who notices one main area in here neighborhood is mostly one culture. Hear what my cousin had say and it feel true because the house much more expensive there and much more fancy then West Berkeley areas. It is much difficult for poor and middle to afford house in that part of area. However, some people don’t need to live in that area because most of the schools are mostly spread evenly in Berkeley. It may have similarly educational background depends on the materials or student willing to learn in that school. The atmosphere in my community is mostly normal because many people hang out with their diverse friends or family who are go to restaurants or shopping for things. The only fun place at time is on a football season in Cal Berkeley or small festival mostly on College Street. I feel mostly missing out activity because I go to Oakland Chinatown to spent time in my closely related culture festival then Berkeley events. I don’t despite my neighborhood because there are not many crimes in that areas and mostly there are many good people who help out with each other if they need it. If I would move to Oakland to spend more time in community and feel more relaxed I would feel much happier, but I would be much afraid because of the crimes in Oakland area. There is less cultural diversity in some parts in Oakland areas.

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