The Houston neighborhood of Allen Field isn't fancy.

It's a little too street neighborhood.

There's one way in, one way out.

We didn't even have street lights growing up.

I mean, that's how small of a community it was.

No street lights, no stop signs or nothing.

But when Dolores Mendoza, who grew up in Allen Field, moved out to give her daughter the

nice house and the suburbs, well, it didn't quite work out as planned.

I hated it.

I didn't even, I lasted barely over a year.

I moved right back.

Dolores missed the place where she grew up.

And I came from an area where my mom lived next door, my uncle lived next door to my mom,

my grandma lived next door to my uncle.

You know, even as I got older and I moved back, my sister lived across the street for

me, my other sister lived next door to me.

So I, you know, every other house was an immediate family member.

A sense of community in an area that's so small and rural that there isn't much data

on the population, save Dalon Field whenever floods came, which was a regular occurrence

in the area.

Whenever we would have these floods and things like that, there was always people that would

stay.

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