In 2009, I began photographically examining different areas that are considered to be stereotypical working class neighborhoods. These are typically neighborhoods in which owning property and an affordable home is possible to those of modest means. The interlocking of the work and home within these neighborhoods is so complete that within society the word "working" is even used in the labeling of these neighborhoods. The home environment is meant to be one that a person can retreat to peacefully away from the public and their place of work; I investigate how this separation is indistinct. The railroad and trucking companies become the next-door neighbors, storage containers become backdrops for serene parks and playgrounds, and electrical towers frame the home. The industrial environments that populate these neighborhoods can peacefully co-exist with the home, but at other times can seem threatening to the everyday way of life. The backyards, front steps, and fences can be public displays of pride of place, or at times they can be the very thing that show a lose of that pride, with small moments of disrepair taking over the home. Though these neighborhoods allow for those of modest means to experience the American dream of homeownership, I hope for my photographs to question the idealized dream of the home.