my hood (aka, le coin)

I live in Mount Pleasant, Vancouver.  Technically, I'm on the eastern-most edge of the neighbourhood--an important distinction when talking about place in real estate terms, something Vancouver is all sexed up about.  This is an edge area, one that's developing, to use the same neutered vernacular laid over other places such as Fuzhou, Chittagong, Dar es Salaam, Logos, and even Kabul, though likely here the term flows with less bite and more verve than for those on the ground in those places.  Ah, but not here.

The lived experience here is a mixed bag of ambivalence and profit, all depending on which bag you hold onto.