Don’t get me wrong, I live in a very nice complex.
I have never felt unsafe even though over the last 7 years I’ve been here there have been 3 murders in my building. It’s a big building. Domestic stuff according to the police. I don’t know my neighbors and I really don’t want to know them. As I type this I can hear a half dozen little arab kids screaming in my hallway. I fricken hate them.
From my seat, I get a sense that our economy has finally adjusted and is beginning to accelerate in certain areas. At the same time I get the feeling that there will be an extraordinary divide as inflation rears it’s nasty head.
If I had the money, I would buy as much urban land or rental buildings as I could. Not just in DC, but virtually every major city.
Me thinks your definition of unsafe is totally different from most of us out here in flyover country. In our neighborhood you can always tell when one of the guys is having a spat with his wife because he will start mowing their lawn, washing their already clean car or power washing the driveway, even though it may be 10 p.m. or 6 a.m. Everyone who lives in our neighborhood are licensed to carry and have guns in their home, except for a couple of Asian families. Murder? Maybe of a stranger who makes the mistake of wondering into the neighborhood and attempts a break-in.
I agree with your feeling that there is going to be an extraordinary divide across our country. What is frightening to someone my age is not knowing exactly where it will rear its ugly head, what impact it will have and on whom. Went through some tough times in the 1940’s. Even though I was small, I do remember and don’t want to go there again.
My wish has always been to have enough money to buy all the vacant land within twenty miles of my home and not allow the city to build anything on it.