On our tour of Federal Heights, we were amazed at the variety of old architecture that was still in close proximity of one another. We starte
d near the bottom of the neighborhood then walked up. The further east we walked, we noticed the houses getting bigger and more extravagant. We could tell from the houses and cars that the people who use this space are upper class individuals.
The only person who talked to us was
a woman who was renovating two of the houses in this neighborhood. While she w
as friendly, many of the other members of this community were very secluded in their massive houses. As far as I noticed, there was very little social language. Through speculation, I imagine that the people who live there communicate in social ways only when planned out in advance.
One thing we found interesting was the alleys behind the houses for the trash. Many of us had never seen an alley and found it to be unnecessary. We jokingly decided that the people who lived in Federal Heights were "too good" to have trash in front of the house, so they designed the neighborhood to include a special area to deal with the less beautiful things about living there.
Most of the people we saw were dressed in work clothes, either coming home from work or people who were landscaping the yards working in their work clothes. These two identities were vastly different. We saw the residents and the help, which you could tell from their appearance that they did not belong in the neighborhood as members of the community.
There was only one political campaign sign in the neighborhood, so I don't believe that political ideals were demonstrated through the houses. The main thing
the houses displayed was wealth: wealth in time to decorate, wealth in size, wealth in age of the house.
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