AP Classport

Kayleigh Boulter and I went to Baldwin Park for our Classport. We both live in Deer Run and we noticed a big difference.

First, Baldwin Park was kind of curved around a lake and then had a park in front of it. I also noticed that there were different layers to it. First it was the lake, then the park, next shops and restaurants, and last houses. It all looked to same as well. All the houses were the same structure only different colors. All of the shops looked the same. There was no variety. In most neighborhoods you would see many different kinds of houses. They are usually similar, but have some structural differences.

Second, the fact that there is shops and restaurants in a neighborhood is different. The most my neighborhood has is a 7-11 convenient store, but there, there was many different places to buy food, even a Publix. There were mexican restaurants, sushi restaurants, and even a chocolate store. We interviewed a women from a pet store there and one of the questions we asked her was "Are most of the stores family owned or corporate chains?" and she said that most stores were family owned and that they try to promote the other stores in Baldwin Park.

Third, we interviewed someone that we knew that lives there. We asked her if she liked it more than the other areas she as lived, and she said that it was the best place she ever lived. We found that when we went it was very convenient to walk around, there was even many bikers riding about. There was also benches to sit if you wanted to. It seemed to me like one giant park with stores and houses in it. In my neighborhood it is a big 3 mile ring that takes about 15 minutes to bike from one side to the other. I also noticed that people new each other and were connected through the neighborhood. In Deer Run no one really knows each other, and if you do it's not because you were being a friendly neighbor and went over to say "Hello!". It is usually because you met them some other way and just so happened to be in the same neighborhood.

All in all I found Baldwin Park and very nice little town were you can shop, eat, go to school, and live, and have it all we in walking distance.