My hometown of Fort Myers, Florida (population: 50,000) used to be a free-standing city ... but in the last half-century it has been swallowed by urban sprawl, to the tune of about 1 million people. This means that Fort Myers proper has become the inner city. And a trait of inner cities is that their flavor (average income, race, etc.) changes block by block, not mile by mile.
Hence, the reality of my neighborhood. Just two blocks away from multi-million-dollar waterfront homes:1. A strip club c
Published on May 16, 2009 06:49