Amazing Discoveries. Vol I
Last Friday I did a wonferful cultural discovery. Looks like Alliance, that town where I went in searching of a car –a gorgeous Chrysler Concorde LE- last February, has a real reputation among Ohioans. The first time I heard that name for a city, I thought we were talking about a lost planet in some Star Wars movie or a kind of remote base in Deep Space 9, but don’t. It does exist indeed. And it turns out Alliance is better known as “the armpit of Ohio”. This is, el sobaco de Ohio for my spaniard comrades ;) Why? Because of its high criminal rate among its fellow residents…So, there he was, Siol, in mid February, looking for a “bargain” car around the town. Now I understand where that blood I noticed was coming from, or those shouts from the rear window of the warehouse. But besides this little details, Alliance fulfitted the category of “rotting industrialized dumped suburb”. But well, that’s kinda common around this region.