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both statements sound right. I grew up in small village Belgium and after marriage moved to the next bigger place. In my home village, I knew lots of people, in the bigger only a few, mostly neighbors. When I moved to the US of course I knew no one. After 15 years here I had a nice little group of friends, that broke up in the scamdemic. Now I have an even smaller group. One former friend lives down town and in a street with older houses, which are more and more bought by black people. A few blocks away and you are in a very bad neighborhood. Not yet criminal, but if you hear about shootings, it is sadly enough, almost always in the black neighborhoods.

Yeah, I grew up in NJ and went to college in NYC. Same story from folks I spoke with in the area. My parents/grandparents grew up in this section of NYC or this section of NJ. Now the area is a shithole populated by blacks and Puerto Ricans. So the Irish, Jews and Italians moved out of the city to Long Island or Westchester County, once they could.

My parents and grandparents lived on the South Side near the University of Chicago.

After it got far too dangerous to remain, they moved out to the southwest suburbs where I was born. Kinda shitty out there, which is sad. All the nice architecture is where my parents grew up, but the buildings are pretty much ruined by neglect now.

Well, I lived in it for a while when in New Orleans. I lived on Chestnut Street (very little money in educational program) and heard gunfire fairly often. It was about halfway between St. Charles Street and the Irish Channel. I could walk to the garden districts and the famous cemeteries.

Compared to California, the 'bad areas' were very close to the 'good areas' aka mansions on St. Charles Avenue. Apparently, it's gotten a lot worse since then and Katrina spread the predictable human plagues into the towns further up the Mississippi.

I scared the shit out of my mother and aunt when they visited. Drove them up Jackson Street on a hot day, and they musta thought all the blacks hanging off their porches or blocking traffic idling with their cars were gonna throw them in the pot right then and there.

The Great Socialist Paradise of California has been relentlessly air dropping the ghetto elements around Tri Valley. The supermarket by me is a hub of pro and amateur beggars now. The Netflix computer geniuses are the worst, because they become confrontational quickly and won't take no for an answer. The soft mugging rapidly becomes a more aggressive and threatening mugging. I think I should start carrying some kind of personal protection now to go to the grocery store, whole new descent into the heart of darkness and getting worse.

I also remember the line between "asking" and mugging getting blurred in San Francisco.

My first time walking up Market Street past the tenderloin, I was greeted by a swarthy gentleman with "Hey snowflake, how bout some change?"

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