[ReagansShinyHair]

Oh, I can believe it. I and my husband are both California natives. My parents grew up here and went to the same high school in Los Angeles. We left California after our house was burglarized twice, I was carjacked in my driveway, and my husband was laid off and layoffs were coming for teachers. (They still are coming this year for teachers, by the way.) We lived in an area that used to be fairly good, at least crime-wise, but it went downhill fast when people began cramming multiple families into one house. My husband's hometown was also nice 20 years ago, but now it is scarily bad in some areas. Who's committing the crimes? Young, illegal, single males. It's a shame. The area used to be a nice place to raise a family, but it sure isn't now. When I left, most of the teachers in my school were jealous. The lower class places were the first to fall to the crime and crowding, but if things continue as they are, I fear you are right and that the mid-upper class areas will also fall. The lower-middle class areas already have.

[international american]

"The lower-middle class areas already have."

The middle class areas already have. Look at the San Fernando Vally. The upper middles(where I live)until March, are next.
Best regards, IA

[riri]

That's why I have to laugh when I see freepers posting about the folly of American's trading houses out and not staying in the same house for 40 years and paying off the mortgage like my parents did.

Here in Phoenix and suburbs, a middle class neighborhood can hold it's own for 15 years, approximately. After 15 years, it's rental city, break-ins, car theft, full extended family from some third world cess pool, etc.

[international american]

" I was carjacked in my driveway"

Never EVER be without a pistol. I am a victim of home invasion and stabbed in a parking lot for theft. Contact the NRA
Stay safe and healthy.
IA