Our second mock interview this week was based around the research we could come up with about our respondents hometown. I found basic information online abouth the small town of Palm Spring North (Florida), such as resident age, income, occupations and surrounding schools. As I was reading about this town my immediate impression was that this small town was like a Pleasantville type of town, where you would find a sweet little girl with two cute ponytails skipping down the sidewalk with a balloon in hand.... But as "Jennifer" told me that this is just a residential community, where previous generations grew up and have continued on their families upbringing there as well. Her mother grew up there and later moved down the block, where "Jennifer" grew up. She now lives in Davie with her family but recalls growing up with a sense of unity due to the small community where everyone knew everybody else. She appreciated (when living there) the fact that she had two surrounding larger metropolitan cities to the North and South of where she lived. She contributes her sense of security in her childhood to growing up in PSN (Palm Spring North). Although she said that as my first misconception of her town, that it isn't a Pleasantville type of living. A crime occured in this small town about 18 years ago, when she was in elementary school. A residential shooting occurred not to far from her elementary school, where helicopters had to land in her school's field in order to take the victim to the hospital. She says that it has changed, the houses are further away from each other, but that the general sense of the town has remained - the same daily commute out of the town for work and schools.
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