Personal Narrative: The Extreme Change-Up In Los Altos

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Driving from University Park to West Dallas there was an extreme change in scenery. The houses were downing in size and spreading apart. Big, nice stores were disappearing. I even noticed a difference with the grass health in yards. For the fact that I am from Chicago, I see a lot of this change-up whenever I go somewhere. The change-up wasn’t the problem for me though. It was the extreme change-up that bothered me. I don’t believe the state of the neighborhood, Los Altos, is a case where I would call it

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