Info Search: Small Beginnings Sequel

[shade_shifter]

In a bid to come up with some sort of plot for a sequel to Small Beginnings, does anyone know any especially bad residential neighbourhoods in or around Washington DC? In the vein of the Magnificent 7's ATF AU's neighbourhood of Purgatorio.

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[moonbeamsfanfic]

Being Canadian, I am using my Google-fu to devise some possible answers

[shade_shifter]

Ooh, you are made of awesome.

I did try my own Google-fu, and I did come up with a site that did crime statistics using colour-coded bobbles on something similar to Google Maps, but it was difficult to scan and to tell which neighbourhood was which, and when I looked them up all I got was PR about much everything was improving.

I definitely think going the way of a fictional neighbourhood would be the easiest, and least offensive, route. Now to come up with a neighbourhood name. Possibly something in the same vein as Purgatorio. Hmm.

[moonbeamsfanfic]

Inferno? Dante's Peak? Underhill? Deadwood? Sufferton? Slaughterville? (Oh wait, that last one's an actual place in Oklahoma! My bad. *eg*)

Hmm... actually, why don't you give the place a real nice sounding name? Like Point Pleasant or something. I mean, everyone knows Purgatorio's a bad part of town because of the name, but if your area was Garden Heights or Dawnwood, then it'd be a bit more ironic.

Of course, there are actual places like Seat Pleasant, Morningside, and even a neighbourhood called Friendly in that part of town, so it may not be saying much after all! ;)

[shade_shifter]

OMG, people actually live in Slaughterville?

It appears we think along similar lines since I was thinking of going with underworld-y type places but of the vaguely more pleasant variety: Asphodel Meadows, Summerland, Fiddler's Green. I'm quite partial to the last one, actually. It's sort of a Valhalla for modern military apparently.

[boogieshoes]

if i was being completely snarky, i would mention the Senate and the House of Representatives as having a *particularly* high crime rate...

-bs

[shade_shifter]

Hee. Probably quite true. I'll have to drop that comparison in somewhere.