[familyop]

".... and do your best to keep the deadbeat neighbors from knowing what you're doing. Make 'em think you got nothin' and no work ethic just like them."

That's good advice for many. There are quite a few of those kind in the small towns. It's hard to figure out why they don't move away to the big cities.

[Wneighbor]

There are quite a few of those kind in the small towns. It's hard to figure out why they don't move away to the big cities.

A shorter line at the food hand-out office? and other things like that?

I hide my preserving and all that I can from the neighbors. They see my greenhouse and garden and think I'm a dopey hippy-type who can't be growing much cause it's not in a plot in rows. And I've got plants that give me food that they aren't familiar with so they think I'm just growing lots of "pretties." LOL - I grow pretties that I like also, helps fool 'em and I like 'em. But, 99% of what I grow I get something out of.

Biggest thing I worry about is that they know we've got guns. They don't have a clue as to how many but to them, more than 1 is lots. ~sigh~ Wish that could have been avoided. OTOH - it was discovered when somebody popped up to an open window one night while I was up reading. I almost shot the neighbor woman. Now everyone in the neighborhood knows. gees.......

[o_zarkman44]

deadbeats can live really cheap in the country and small towns. but in a small town, everyone pretty much knows everyone.
In the city, one has no idea who the bad and desperate people are.