oakland is the same, when neighborhoods start to burn down because of "gang disputes" then they gentrify the area when they rebuild the areas doesnt happen anymore but this is what used to happen a couple of years ago. my house got sold to these crazy aussie lawyers who made look like a house in the middle of the house, stone pillars, sand paths, white tacky paint, 800grand house in the middle of 400grand neighborhood. the house sticks out of the landscape like a skyscraper, its huge and white around small brown houses.