Originally Posted by Mummy in the foothills

OMG it sounds awful.
We do have a small gang problem here, centered mostly on a couple of tiny towns about 20 miles away, and also based on drugs, meth and pot. They aren't too interested in us, we have a small modest looking home there are more interesting McMansions nearer to town. We still lock our doors at night and lock the car in the driveway. Habot from living in a nasty old city.
Oh the phone lines are underground thank goodness and accessed only from the back garden (more like a field)

Originally Posted by Jules Europe

When I wrote that, I was think about "Assault on Precinct 13" which is actually applicable to an urban setting and not a rural.

Originally Posted by Sally Redux

When we go out to a rural place, my husband always remarks on 'The Hills Have Eyes'

Originally Posted by Jules Europe

I love that film as well and have seen it countless times, another great rural house setting is that of "Night of the Living Dead" which is set in Pennsylvania, they had all types roaming around outside

Originally Posted by Sally Redux

I always think of 'Dawn of the Dead' when I go in the malls here

Originally Posted by Sally Redux

I hate those places...giving you the bloody once-over before you can get in free country innit

Originally Posted by Cape Blue

My sister in law lives in one a couple of hours outside LA, the whole concept makes me shudder, I can just imagine the look on the gate commandant's face if someone drove up DWB.

Originally Posted by Elvira

... or DWA...

Originally Posted by Jules Europe

What`s DWA and DWB?

Originally Posted by Cape Blue

Driving While Black/Asian

Originally Posted by Jules Europe

I would have never guessed that.

I`ve quite often heard, that across the USA that whites and blacks quite often don`t live in the same residential areas, despite the fact that they work together and even socialize together, how true is this?

Originally Posted by Sally Redux

Will Smith lives in Hidden Hills, apart from that you're about right.

Originally Posted by Jules Europe

I get the impression, that the USA apart from the southern states seems to practice a kind of loose amicable apartheid system, where every ethnic group kind of knows its place, to change this is to upset the equilibrium of the system there.

Originally Posted by Sally Redux

Hmm don't know how amicable it is. They have enough space for 'white flight' to take place.

Originally Posted by Jules Europe

Is this when a black family moves into a predominantly white area, which in turn forces the white families to gradually move out?