Spokane: downtown waterfalls, gondolas, and homelessness, all in the same picture. I moved out here in 2004. When I first moved, I bought a nice house a block away from broadway foods on Mallon St. When I moved in, I realized why I purchased it for 83k. I got into a fist fight with a neighbor, had a homeless man sleeping in my garage (fucker split his canned ravioli IN my jeep, we got to be friends later), and yet 3 blocks over it was a row of half million dollar houses. Spokane is a conundrum, and analyzing data seems to be difficult. Nothing really surprising about the population statistics. I have to say for the most part, the GIS work wasn't surprising, people move to an area, build nice houses, they get older, build new nicer houses on the edge of town, rinse, repeat. There is a reason most of the hoods are near the train tracks. I did find it interesting that a good portion of the west plains was below the poverty line. I'm curious to find out more about how the data is reported by the fed, and inevitably how this method fucks over the people it "aims" to protect. Eat more carbs!
