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The Area

One of the most recent ethnic neighborhoods to happen in Carcosa, Little Ethiopia is populated by many refugees of Ethiopian and Eritrean descent. While not as violent in it's carving out as Cabbagetown or Little Italy, some of the refugees have made a poor name for the area by banding together in gangs to try and muscle into the already saturated underworld by committing crimes on their own people. Openly distancing themselves from these amateur thugs, the few business owners of Little Ethiopia have recently formed a "neighborhood watch" to try and combat the problem. Thus far, nothing seems to have really changed.

With the inner problems that Little Ethiopia is having in distinguishing itself, it comes as little surprise that most other neighborhoods and territories of the city consider those who live there a joke. Little Ethiopia has become a regular punchline, and often you'll see hate graffiti of little malnourished children crying "feed me, America!" plastered up on billboards of the area. It seems as though when one is painted over, another one appears nearby, so they have all but given up in trying to suppress it.

The buildings of Little Ethiopia are crammed together in near shanty-style one story boxes for buildings. Rarely will you see any neon signs for businesses, and those that do seem to be second rate, with portions of the lighted sign burned out. Also regular is the sight of vandalized storefronts and restaurants and graffiti'd hate on the front of boarded up homes and stores. The streets are a veritable dangerous pitfall that spells doom for unobservant drivers; the city requires private roads to be funded by the businesses and homeowners living on them and since many of the businesses and homes are rented... well, the streets never are tended. For a neighborhood trying to establish itself as the others have, it seems as though it's being forced back out into oblivion by those it would seek to emulate.