[muawiyah]

We have a quaint village environment ~ people from everywhere in the world ~ we even have an Indo-Pak "sweet shop" with some of the most elegant candy and pastries in existence. Not every neighborhood has that.

Oh, and there are only 5 halal butchershops here now. We lost one the other day.

The thing is I live where other people have to travel through just to begin their trip home.

[fullchroma]

Are you serious? I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not.

What you describe isn’t the Springfield I remember, i.e., pretty cookie-cutter subdivisions run tyrannically by oppressive home-owner associations where, not THAT long ago, I used to go horseback riding forever. Familiar strip-mall commerce at every stoplight. No there, there.

I’m dense. What are you talking about? Is there a little (large?) Islamville in Springfield?