Do you feel 100% safe in all parts of your community?

VintageBetter

VintageBetter

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My answer: no.
I feel like certain government buildings are openly hostile to domestic violence survivors even though they are taxpayer funded edifices.
In certain neighborhoods I might be okay in daylight hours, but they are certainly not safe after dark.
 

I feel completely safe in my community, yes. Like anywhere else in the world, there are a few areas in a neighboring town to avoid, but then I simply avoid them. My own town is a perfect example of "small town America." I'll add that it doesn't mean I go wandering around with my head in the clouds or totally oblivious... I'm always mindful of my surroundings, but that's common sense for anywhere, and not that the area isn't safe.
 
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Well, in the sticks, we don't have marauding gangs of deer, terrorizing the place. There's no need to lock doors at night. And besides, I don't want anything between me and E.M.S. people, if I need them.
In my first apartment in NYC, I used to keep a Bowie knife under my pillow. Pretty soon, it was obvious the only person, who got stabbed, was me, so I got rid of it.
Are there some areas that are sketchy? Yes. But, if you think there could be a serial killer behind every post, in your mind, there will be.
 
I don't worry about it. But the situation here has changed. Our valley, in the '70s-'90s, was Mayberry safe. However, during that time a lot of households started growing cannabis. Some for their personal use only, some as a prepared black-market crop.

Most of the growers of both sorts were gentle, friendly people who simply wanted to afford living. A relative few aspired to be high rollers, and they made connections with biker-gangs that financed their operations & distributed the primo weed. When our federal gov't legalized pot possession & began to regulate production, distribution & sales, the market price for illegally grown pot fell dramatically. I've heard eventually to 30% of the former.

Some of the bigger operations continued to cultivate, because their volume of output still afforded a livable income. And some of the bikers who'd bought property in the area remained. This segment of the populous is a small but conspicuous pissed-off circle... most of them alcoholic, some using meth, and a small number reputedly able to afford coke. Curiously, the incidence of burglaries (mainly of business locations) has increased since pot legalization.

So, while we didn't before, we now do lock doors. But, day or night, I don't feel unsafe when I'm out and around in the community.
 
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CallMeKate said:
Note to self... don't knock on @Nathan 's door asking to borrow a cup of sugar! Or anything. :oops:
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Lol, I do have a neighbor not too far away that might borrow things from time to time, but he would call or text first. ;)

For someone to knock on the door- they would first have to jump over the fence, which makes them an intruder / trespasser.

When the local Sheriff's Dept. deputy comes to the meth-freak neighbor's house to check his status, he parks by their front gate, sounds his yelp horn and run the light-bar to get their attention.
 
I feel safe at my home.

I live in a semi-rural area & the neighbors who live closest to me, we tend to watch out for each other. If something happens, it gets around. If I see something that isn't right, I have no hesitation to call the local LE. But that doesn't mean that I don't have my head on a swivel at home or where ever else I may be at.

People with bad intent will still travel by any means available to them ... they will go where they have no legitimate reason to be only to do things they have no right to do.
 
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