I gotta get out of this neighborhood.

[rabidbadger]

damn, I gotta get out of here. when I drove home today there were seven cop cars and 15 cops and an ambulance at the house where the murder was in january. Now there is a house fire across the street. ladder trucks and 5 fire engines....

I hate this place. a fire killed three little girls at the end of my block last year. and my house got robbed two days in a row last winter.

I hope everyone is ok. but enough is enough.
:(

[ariastar]

damn, I gotta get out of here. when I drove home today there were seven cop cars and 15 cops and an ambulance at the house where the murder was in january. Now there is a house fire across the street. ladder trucks and 5 fire engines....

I hate this place. a fire killed three little girls at the end of my block last year. and my house got robbed two days in a row last winter.

I hope everyone is ok. but enough is enough.
:(

Sell the house. Move out here. Staying there isn't worth your safety.

[rabidbadger]

I can't afford "out here"

[heavymetalme]

There's bound to be other safer places that are affordable. It sucks that crime and that kind of shit is infesting everywhere. My neighborhood used to be just middle class folk minding their own business. Now we have gangs infiltrating our neighborhoods, tagging stuff up, etc.

[phatlip12]

Move down to Maryland and chill with me and my buds. :cool:

[masherscf]

There's bound to be other safer places that are affordable. It sucks that crime and that kind of shit is infesting everywhere. My neighborhood used to be just middle class folk minding their own business. Now we have gangs infiltrating our neighborhoods, tagging stuff up, etc.

He could move into the bush. But, what fun would that be.

[Bohemian_Beauty]

What part of Idaho? I know Cour d'Alene (spelling) is cheap and so is Boise. There cheap parts of Cali. Just not in the snazy bay area or in So Cal.

[tokenuser]

What part of Idaho? I know Cour d'Alene (spelling) is cheap and so is Boise. There cheap parts of Cali. Just not in the snazy bay area or in So Cal.That'd be the upstate NY part of Idaho :)

There has to be a better neighborhood than the street you live on. I'd even move out of town just to get away from people ... indeed we are thinking about it for our next house.

[ryudo]

I would say come on over here Rabid in this quiet neighborhood but then again this is Utah.

[skyz]

damn, I gotta get out of here. when I drove home today there were seven cop cars and 15 cops and an ambulance at the house where the murder was in january. Now there is a house fire across the street. ladder trucks and 5 fire engines....

I hate this place. a fire killed three little girls at the end of my block last year. and my house got robbed two days in a row last winter.

I hope everyone is ok. but enough is enough.
:(

i have thought this before: miami beach would be great for you

on miami beach there are no slums and no ghettos

i asked a police person about crime and he told me their greatest crime problem was crowd control for the events that are 'staged' here

there were only 3 murders last year all domestic situations

it is not cheap here but since it is not tech it is not as expensive as california

biking and walking are normal

you don't need expensive clothes

and beauty of all kinds is ubiquitous here

and miami beach is growing and developing so much that it is as 'happening' as you could want

[rabidbadger]

What part of Idaho? I know Cour d'Alene (spelling) is cheap and so is Boise. There cheap parts of Cali. Just not in the snazy bay area or in So Cal.

bobe, that's my little joke... movie (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102494/)

music:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7t7cGwN7_0

I'm in rochester, NY.

[heyseuss]

I would say come on over here Rabid in this quiet neighborhood but then again this is Utah.

I was on tour with a band and was feeling sick on my flight to SLC. After checking into the Hotel Of America (ego much, hotel chain?) I had a doctor come to my room, who quarantined me to my hotel room away from everyone I worked with for the entire time I was in SLC. I spent the day and night watching airplanes make their way through the 5 layered landing pattern of SLC airport. At one time, I counted 16 planes in the sky in a folding Z pattern making their way down to the runway for landing. A further 9 planes were in the distant horizon making their way to the top of the 'Z'. That's my story of SLC, spent 2 days in one building watching airplanes there.

Someone from my crew put a purple Delta center folding chair in my video equipment roadcase, which I discovered in the next city, which I kept til the end of the tour and ended up putting in my office when I came home.

[rabidbadger]

fun story, but what the hell it got to do with the thread...?

[scoobydiesel]

wow dude, thats crazy stuff...I hope you find away out of that hellhole and find a better place.

[njshadow]

Move to the East Coast. The general tri-state area that Phatlip and I live in is pretty nice. The Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, area isn't bad at all. Plus, Pennsylvania isn't too bad either. For some reason I just love the East Coast compared to the West Coast.

[heyseuss]

fun story, but what the hell it got to do with the thread...?

ryudo is in SLC.

[rabidbadger]

Move to the East Coast. The general tri-state area that Phatlip and I live in is pretty nice. The Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, area isn't bad at all. Plus, Pennsylvania isn't too bad either. For some reason I just love the East Coast compared to the West Coast.

I am on the east coast. and ask elecrical burn about jersey... then get back to me.

[lordbyron]

Here in Chicago I don't even lock my doors...Ok Ok I live in a southern Suburb of Chicago. Hell there are parts of chicago that I won't even drive through with the doors unlocked. There was a time when a contractor was in the wrong neighborhood after dark and he stopped for a red light and guys just jumped into the back of his pickup and started throwing shit off while he was stopped.

In those same neighborhoods I will come to a red light stop check traffic and go. Thats what a buddy of mine was told to do by a cop. He got pulled over because he did not "fit in" the surroundings and the cop figured he was buying drugs, but when my buddy explained he was doing a job at factory in the area the cop pointed a direction and said go that way and do not stop for red lights.

[phatlip12]

Here in Chicago I don't even lock my doors.

Is that really the best idea? Especially after that one story you told when someone broke into your house...

[heyseuss]

Is that really the best idea? Especially after that one story you told when someone broke into your house...

My neighbor, doesn't even close her doors when she leaves the house. She has actually left town for the weekend and left the doors open. She likes to let her pets roam free.

The only reasons I don't lock my doors when I leave the house is, because it's just as easy to break into, and so I don't have to carry keys, or fumble with trying to get them in the lock when I come home wasted. :D

[lordbyron]

Is that really the best idea? Especially after that one story you told when someone broke into your house...

That happened when I lived in Indianapolis.

[lordbyron]

My neighbor, doesn't even close her doors when she leaves the house. She has actually left town for the weekend and left the doors open. She likes to let her pets roam free.

The only reasons I don't lock my doors when I leave the house is, because it's just as easy to break into, and so I don't have to carry keys, or fumble with trying to get them in the lock when I come home wasted. :D

If someone wants in bad enough they will get in. Plus I have a good sized dog. German Shepard/Golden Retriever mix. The best dog ever. Great protector but gentle as a kitten around friends.

[heyseuss]

If someone wants in bad enough they will get in.

Hence why I don't lock up. My back door can be locked, but when it's locked, it can be lifted up off the hinge and moved to the side, so no point. Plus, if I leave everything open, it won't be hot and stifled when I get back.

And dogs aren't worth much at all, other than an alarm/alert system. The can make tonnes of noise, or bite a sleeping person, or, if in a gang and organised, take a person down, but if I'm breaking into a place and a dog attacks me, it's a minor inconvenience of 5 more mins wasted, nothing more really.

[acidburn]

Kids in my town throw rocks at mailboxes from cars. Usually starts right around the month
before school lets out for the summer.

And then there was the time that some kids used something to kill the grass on the high school soccer field so they spelled the word "poop" in the grass. Since the field was lower than the road you could see it as you drive by. It stayed like that for over a year since the grass never grew back quite right. That's as bad as it gets around here.

Damn kids! :)

[ariastar]

My neighbor, doesn't even close her doors when she leaves the house. She has actually left town for the weekend and left the doors open. She likes to let her pets roam free.

The only reasons I don't lock my doors when I leave the house is, because it's just as easy to break into, and so I don't have to carry keys, or fumble with trying to get them in the lock when I come home wasted. :D

In Massachusetts, in Ludlow, it was common to leave keys in the ignition overnight.

[ariastar]

We need to get Joely here so he can he Uncle Joel to our (not/maybe/hopefully gonna happen?) children.

[masherscf]

But, would he be cool Uncle Joel or creepy Uncle Joel?

[rabidbadger]

I resent that... jeeze!

[ariastar]

The creepily-cool one. :)