White flight? Suburbs lose young whites to cities

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

You. have. no. clue.

You have no idea what my people went through trying to maintain a property in that area that Johns Hopkins was all too happy to buy up.

You need to stay in your lane on this because you don't have any idea at all how things work in Baltimore and larger cities in general, about how Baltimore is ill prepared in handling criminal elements and moreso how they play the shell game with people.

Until those people are willing to assist law enforcement in dealing with the criminal element within, they'll continue to be part of that shell game. They can deal with it or move. It's their choice.

I laugh at you hollering about "well, common citizens should band together to fight crime...that'll fix it."

I've seen it work. And you mischaracterize. I said cooperate with law enforcement to report on, provide evidence and eliminate crime. In other words, the "snitches get stitches" crowd is no longer tolerated, parents don't raise their kids to not trust or cooperate with law enforcement, cultural change. Unless that happens, "your people" deserve whatever they get.

Why do I keep fucking with you? Because you are clueless. And you are content to live in your blindness because as you say "It will never happen."

And yes, I wish for bad things to happen to you because maybe it will open your eyes to show you that LIFE isn't as cut and dry as you make it especially when you get to benefit off of someone else's work to see to your blindness.

As they say, pride comes before the fall

Ah, 'cuz I don't come from the mean streets of an east coast city, I'm incapable of forming an opinion? Or at least forming an opinion which differs from yours, which is the only correct take on the subject?

Life IS as cut and dry as that. Folks reap what they sow, and if they sow crime and blight, or at least they do nothing and watch the world around them go to hell, then that's what they get to reap. That's justice.

I guess these people should have moved too huh?

No, that proves how pathetic and cowardly the people of that neighborhood are. Only ONE family stood up to the drug dealers? Please. It's going to take a hell of a lot more than that -- especially if the police are as inept as you say. Hell, why would anyone want to even live there near neighbors who just don't give two shits about drug dealers conducting business openly? If that's acceptable, I think I can understand why a company would want to move everyone out in order to redevelop and why the city would do everything in its power to make that happen.

I'm a member of my HOA, I attend quarterly meetings, we have a neighborhood watch, we've taken measures to make it inconvenient for the nearby Section 8ers to access our neighborhood by building high fences around ourselves, we don't allow broken down cars, overgrown lawns, loud noise, or any of that. It's not tolerated.