Delta4Embassy
Gold Member
People who continue to live in a neighborhood that has become rundown and crime ridden are being very foolish. It is the same as continuing to smoke when you know it causes cancer. It is like staying where you are though your town is in the middle of war zone. It is cutting off you nose to spite your face. If you want to stay put, then you risk being the victim of crime. You become a volunteer. Not very sensible.
Everybody who doesn't want to be a victim of crime move to the better neighborhoods. When criminals move to the better neiborhoods, move to the suburbs. When the criminals get to the suburbs everyone should move back to to cities. Eventually criminals will get tired of the chase and decide to become law-abiding citizens. Frigging brilliant.
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Serious and violent crimes aren't contained to bad neighborhoods. Just had a little girl grabbed from a residential street and murdered here a few days ago. If it can happen in a 'American heartland' town, it can happen anywhere.