Geez -= I feel for ya. Guess I've never lived anywhere near a place like that - and even though I've been to most big US cities, I'll admit I'm naive on the extemely bad-sections. Thanks for the good explanation, but what do you mean the big cities are moving Sect 8's to your area?
The guy I quoted below you said that. And I'm not sure about the last statement....I can be pretty nuts!
Not in a big city.
Has Jack to do with big cities it has to do with cultural things.
Lots of medium to small towns have problems. There are about 1 million or so in our area, but it has nothing to do with population, and it isn't really a 'bad area' per se.
Some cultures are a LOT more violent than others.
You live in a mono-cultural area, because you would never post anything like that if you didn't.
Kids roughing up people who don't look like them is pretty standard, some cultures it never ends when they get older.
Lots of people like violence, dog fighting is a big local sport, as is **** fighting, and kids beating on each other. Three pit bulls killed this morning in dog fights, a cop actually broke that one up. Amazing. heard it on the radio about 11 am.
Section 8 is basically government supplied housing. If you qualify, some are just poor, but the commonest way to qualify for Section 8 is serious criminal record or serious drug problems. That is a guarantee of Section 8 housing.
Disabled can qualify but only after the criminals get it.
So bigger towns do what New York, the state of Florida and many other places have done for at least a century. They move the 'problem' to another community.
When the thug gets out of prison, or the gang banger gets to be too violent for the city, they offer him free housing in another area. Lucky us, we get to be that area because the city that runs this county is on the other side of a mountain range and has 60% of the vote. The illegal vote in the county, by itself, outnumbers our small city.
So when they get criminals or 'undocumented immigrants' who need housing, we get them. They move into ANY neighborhood as they don't pay the rent.
So they get great housing (doesn’t stay great for long, of course) anywhere they want.
Example, the beach cities are just crammed with Section 8.
You have to be rich, or very poor to live in the beach cities in California.
The actual working people are being heavily squeezed out by these practices.
Surprising you haven't encountered any problems, but then, I have friends who travel to Paris every year and have never seen the cars burning. Or perhaps, they just don't look.
Happens lots of places, I was shot at in Victoria BC a couple years ago, nothing personal, kids with homemade guns shooting at everyone.
Just youthful high spirits the cops assured us.
If you stick to tourist areas, you are very safe most anywhere.
California only cops and people with leftist political connections can have concealed carry permits, which the criminals know quite well. Thus they know you aren’t armed, but they are.
Of course the criminals can carry, if they need to. Most criminals are young and strong and don’t really need weapons to hurt or kill most citizens.
I definitely wouldn't want to walk up the drive of some gun-toting paranoid freak! 
