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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Warchild" data-source="post: 302644" data-attributes="member: 769">Thats a major point. I've lived in the city the vast majority of my life, although my family background is in the "boon docks" as they say. I went back upstate for a couple years and after my experiences living in a small town, i have to say that there is just as much crime going on in the small town as as the city, proportionately. Its different crime usually and its rarely reported in the news, but its all there i assure you. In the small town everyone knows everyone and when the cops show up, its not "Hello officer, let my explain the problem", its "Hey Bob, hows the truck running? Nah, theres is no problem. Lucy and i just had an agruement. See you at the softball game, tomorrow". Thats almost a direct translation i might add. Everyone knows everyone and that makes the situation different/more difficult. Another thing is that the news stations around here are in the cities. They rarely go out into the small towns that surround the city and scare up news reports. Especially when there is a hundred stories going on in the city. But its the same news reports that the po dunk farmers get and its all about the city folk committing so much crime. I've sat at a table and listened to someone talk about how bad it is in the city, then shift to talking about who got the crap beat out of them by some sister's brother getting revenge for a near-rape or even just an insult (!!!)...and not think twice about it, because "Thats different. This is happeneing out here and we all know Charlie was having a bad day and blah blah blah". It all boils down to if you see it on the news its terrible, if you see it next door or even in your family...well thats just life. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I agree, The answer is not just one thing, its an amalgamation of different things and that even will be different from person to person. America is so damn huge that generalizations are completely useless.I do notice that so many parents that in my day literally would kick the kid out of the house and tell them to go DO something, where as now you are told to go play your computer games and don't go running around in the streets with your "hoodlum" friends!! At least around here. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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