Country Mouse Moves to the City

When we moved from Wattsburg, Pennsylvania to Erie, Pennsylvania I thought the new apartment sitting right by a small park was a great idea considering I had two teenaged boys and a Siberian Husky with lots of energy to burn.

I was not familiar with city living, let alone downtown lower East side Erie city living, to be precise.

I worked full-time while raising the two boys alone there and quickly discovered coming home from my second shift job that the basketball court was very busy late into the night. The downstairs neighbor informed me that the people meeting there were not just playing basketball. They were dealing drugs.

I was seeing someone by this time and I was frightened walking from the street to the rear of the apartment to make my way upstairs. I would call my boyfriend before I arrived home and keep him on the cell phone until I made it safely upstairs and locked the door.

I learned to be street savvy, as did my teenaged boys who were once chased by a gang of teenagers while they were roller blading the city streets a few blocks from the apartment.

Not everyone will welcome strangers at a new city.

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