Quote Originally Posted by deanb View Post
That is crazy that your crime is so high.... I guess I can kinda belive it, as people want to go as far away as possible to commit their crimes, but seriously, where I live I see nothing. I don't know how familiar you are with Dallas, but I live in between Deep Ellum and Farmers Market, and I see nothing. Our car is in a parking garage with a gate, but our street front, is well, not gated. We walk out dogs and such with not much crime (well, there is a homeless lady that washes her clothes in our fountain).
We aren't so far away from downtown. It's only about a 10-15 minute drive to downtown. So I think we get the worst of both worlds here. We aren't urban enough to warrant a high concentration of patrols. But we are in the the city of Dallas so we get the lousy services that comes with the poor tax base of the city.

If it wasn't for the dogs, we'd live in a more urban setting. When I first relocated here from Minnesota, I had to buy a house just so my dog could have a little yard. Lol.