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Before I left high school, I thought that those people would be my friends forever. Within three months of graduation, I only saw one high school friend on a regular basis. I returned and lived in the same neighborhood - and the very same house - years later and I saw only 2 or 3 of my high school friends occasionally. We all thought we would remain friends forever! What happened?

Please do not respond if you still attend high school!

I will give a few scenarios

1. You're in your home, you hear a noise, and you see someone breaking your windows. This person has gasoline and the means to burn your he down. You have called the police, but they are busy right now, due to budget cuts caused by #defundthepolice. This person also has what appears to be a baseball bat and a knife. To prevent this person harming your family you get your shotgun, fire a warning shot and advise they leave or the next one would be through their head.

2. You're out with your wife and children, you're in the car, a person with a baseball bat shatters your window screaming to get out of your car. you're armed and own a concealed carry permit. You advise him of the fact but he won't leave. You pull your gun and fire, hitting him in the shoulder, you call the police.


3. You're a business owner. Been in the neighborhood 50 years, your father owned the business before you, and now you're the owner. There is commotion outside, it looks like someone is getting beaten in the street, this person appears to have done nothing wrong. You go outside and break the fight up, knocking the aggressor out.. And call the police

4. You're walking down a street, you hear someone, a woman, screaming God help me down an ally close to you. You approach quietly, call the police and quietly say what's happening, leaving the phone on because you aren't quite sure of the address. When you approach you find that a guy is trying to rape this woman. You surprise the attacker, and manage to get him off of her, but the attacker runs away.. You wait with the woman for the police.

None of these situations use unjustified violence in my opinion, but if you don't live in the United States you can go to jail for most of them.

I’m of two minds...

For: Poor communities are epicenters of crime, welfare and the less educated. Breaking up those communities could destroy the cycle of poverty. They could become more productive living in middle class communities.

Against: Middle Class families have little else than their houses as investments. And bringing in poor families could make the neighborhood’s value decline. The poor aren’t known for taking care of their homes and behaviors are hard to break.

Although... peer pressure on poor families and a better environment are the best shots we have to break those behaviors.

I was sexually abused by my mother. I was raised by my grandparents.

But i wanted to take a girl I've been dating to the neighborhood where I grew up. I wanted to show her my childhood home. This is not where I was abused. My mother is from a different state.

She said that she won't judge where I grew up then acted hesitant about wanting to go. She said that she moved around and lived a lot of places growing up. I asked about it in bed but she said it was her own insecurity issue.

I feel not wanting to see where your lover grew up is strange. Is it a sign her feelings for me a not a deep love connection?

I absolutely hate people who talk about poverty as if it's just a stage of life.
I feel like they aren't stupid but dangerously toxic and blind: People who speak as if everyone who has no healthcare can suddenly hop on a random government program. People who say "Poverty in America is nothing like poverty in third world countries". People who think anyone can just work their way out of poverty if they try hard enough.
It's like they join introduction to economics for a single day then assume they have all the answers. It's one thing to say "I don't know how to solve the problem" but it's a completely other thing to say "I know the solution is definitely XYZ" as if it's a fact.

Maybe I'm just irritated but I can't find anything redeemable about a person whose biggest struggle in the last 4 years was finding a brand new job before returning to their 4 bed/2bath home in an HOA neighborhood.