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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Am I the only one who doesn’t think Old Town is so great?  Being genuine.  Tourist trap.  Bad restaurants.  Avoid.[/quote]

No, you’re not the only one.  I’m completely flabbergasted by all the “we can’t imagine living anywhere else in the US, or world, but Old Town!” posts.[/quote]

I am not sure there have been I can’t imagine living anywhere but Old Town posts.  I think there have been posts defending Old Town as a place to live despite ACPS being a poorly functioning school system.  [/quote]

Clarification that no one in Old Town are the ACPS apologists and deniers.

That’s elsewhere in the city like Del Ray. Also on council, school board, the police chief.[/quote]

Actually plenty of Old Town residents are apologists and deniers. There is a substantial portion of UMC white Lyles Crouch parents that are gun ho on ACPS and, believe me, will pull out the racism card if you dare to suggest alternatives to the failing GWMS. [/quote]

That’s news to me and I’ll be on the look out for those hypocrites.

Typically in my experience Old Town is upfront about who they are and what they want (whether you or the city agree with it or not).

Most of Old Town, if they have children, left the system decades ago and are called racist anyway even if they aren’t or were  there during the high school consolidation.

So you move here knowing that past ES you have to find another option (private or move).

You also move here to live in old homes in a historic district. There’s no pretending it is or should be anything except that, and that it is somehow inclusive.

Now if you live in a more recent, manufactured “historic district” that feeds into Jefferson Houston and live across from one of the public housing complexes and have to deal with the reality of that and can’t sell your home, then yes those people lie.[/quote]

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