Or, move to New Hampshire.
It's interesting to me, when I travel, how so much of my country is occupied. In northern New England, we just don't live the way tens of millions do now, thinking about things like the quote above.
The last time I was in Orlando, some young lawyer told me that you can't go out at night. I mean, really? People really put up with this?
Not only do we put up with it. Many don't know anything different.
When I tell my kids I grew up in a not so great, working class city in upstate NY and we never locked ANYTHING. Not doors, not cars, slept with our windows open in the summer, left our windows open when we went out on nice days (rare, haha)-they think I am just getting old and remembering things better than they really were.
These kids and their kids--they'll go straight into Brazil/South Africa and never know it doesn't have to be this way.