"Steve Pope" > wrote in message
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> Julie Bove > wrote:
>
>>We live in the suburbs. There is really no reason for us to be going
>>outside or crossing streets. Yes there is a park across the street. If
>>you
>>are underage and in need of beer that's where you go to get it. Want
>>illegal drugs? You can get those there too. So that's a street we don't
>>need to be crossing.
>
> The cause and effect may be reversed here. Because you and your
> neighbors do not go out and walk, the park has become a haven for
> illicit activity rather than a pleasant place to walk. Not the other
> way around.
>
> I have to say that, were I to find myself doing what you do -- by
> preference spending all my time indoors or in motor vehicles --
> it would feel to me like I was trapped in a giant neurosis.

Luckily I don't feel that way.