when you could walk outside your home and feel safe?

for any of you living out there where you can let your kids play outside or you cant go for a walk when you cant sleep at night. remember when none of that was a problem? back in the day you didnt have to worry about being harmed for the clothes you wear, or the color of your skin, or your sexual preferance, or something you said or didn't say?

 

i dont remember that,wish i could..sad ha?

 

Are you talking about the 60's-70's era? My grandfather has told me the same thing, you would walk outside and like let your house open( I mean let your door open, windows) and nothing would happen.

 

Where I live, you pretty much still can. We don't lock our doors and since we live out in the country, we can still, just like when I was a kid, go sit in the middle of the road and a car won't even hit you.


Although we did have a scare a few months back when someone walked into our house and stole a big jar of change...but otherwise, it's pretty tame around here.

 

No... I don't remember this at all. Sad, huh? But I can't remember reading about a time when race and/or orientation didn't matter, either. Clothes do seem more a part of it now than they used to though.

 

sure; i grew up out in the boonies, that was one of the things i best liked about it.

i don't know about cities. my mom, who'se 87, tells me there were always neighborhoods where you wouldn't be safe if you were from particular other neighborhoods. but safe and unsafe are relative concepts.

i think people have been safer at times and in places where cops didn't carry guns.

there is no safety in any soverignty, only in not denying the connection between priorities and probabilities.

what i mean by that in THIS context, is i think the core values, the ones that are actualy unconscously lived by, of the culture you live surrounded by, have more to do with it then anything else. that and how much work and inconvenience it might be for someone else to do you harm.

i mean if you've got a culture that romantacizes and rewards aggressiveness, you're a hell of a lot more likely to get beaten over the head, then one that honors creating beauty and freely shairing it with the public, instead of trying to make everything have to begin and end with little green pieces of paper.

public parks, libraries and transportation are a civilizing influence. i'm not saying the're a magic wand, no place no time is 100% safe, period, BUT, i know there are places, even places where there are a lot of people, that are a hell of a lot safer for each of us, then others.

and what the safer places have in common, isn't neccessarily degree of economic wealth, or specific beliefs or idiologies, but a common understanding of not messing everything up for everybody else.

every place is alwas capable of getting better just as it is of getting worse.
of course the examples set by political leaders enter into it also.

and everyone else who is visible and in the public eye.
but so too, do we, each of us, constantly, whether we are thinking about it or not,
set examples for each other.

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this is another of those, doesn't have to be a remember when. it could be today and tommarow, IF we stop putting trying to impress each other ahead of it

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to bad i got robbed right outside my house a couple weeks ago

 

I cant remember feeling that safe, too bad for me and my future children

 

That's often the most dangerous place. My friend got mugged right in his driveway. Someone simply sat on the street in his car and staked the place out. He mugged him then took off in his car.

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Someone got smoked last night on my block, again, this has been at LEAST the 3rd gunshot murder I personally have heard this week in my area. Who knows how many go down when Im asleep or not at home. I dont fear it though, when ever I got out to the bar or to pick up some food, I just looks straight ahead and dont bother with anyone unless they bother with me.

 

I live near downtown and nearly every house has some alarm sytem sign in their yard or stickers on their houses. Yes I lock everything,van included. My friends in southern(rural) Indiana don't lock their doors and even leave their keys in the ignition of their car.That is unheard of around here. It is all a part of where you live.

 

I know exactly what you mean. I think it's really sad. I live in a neighborhood where I feel fine going outside, cause i have like 2 neighbors and we all know each other. We had some incidents though where we looked outside and saw people standing in our yard looking into our windows and shit like that, so i still feel kinda scared when i go outside. i always think theres somebody just waiting for me haha.

My mom said when she was little they used to leave their door unlocked when they went somewhere, and even while they slept and they never had problems with robberies or anything. i wish it was still this way

 

there's be more places where it still is if there were fewer of us. absolutely guaranteed.
it's always a very small percentage of the population anywhere that makes it unsafe for most of their neighbors. and when the total population is smaller that percentage is still just as much smaller. it's only when you've got billions of people that that percentage adds up to a large number. well of course that's what percentages are. and then of course there's the cultural factor as i've already mentioned. that has a lot to do with what the actual percentage is. then the total population determines the numbers.

the only reason this is a "remember when" is because there really are that many more of us. have continued being more of us ever since sometime arround 1750. waaaay before most of us or even our gran's were born. but even as recently as our own childhoods, and even still now, there were and even are places. they just get fewer and further between, the more of us there are.

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yeah i remember when i was little i would go out and play with the neighborhood kids, riding our bikes all over the neighborhood and building forts and going to and from different peoples backyards, and none of the parents seemed to worry much. i always felt really safe wandering around with the other kids. now though i cant say id be comfortable letting my kids do the same, and i live in a small neighborhood not even in a bad area. Things have just changed. Its really sad because most of my best childhood memories are of just running around the neighborhood in the summertime.

 

Guess this another, remember when threads......

My first 12 years were growing up in West Los Angeles, Palms was the community. Even be for I was old enough to cross the street by myself, the whole block was mine. Since everybody knew everybody, if you acted like a butt your mom knew about it be for you made it home.
Across the alley lived Mr. Casidy, he had lost both his legs above the knees in some sort of accident. He didn't have artificial legs, but leather cups over his stumps. He had a little electric cart he used to get around the neighborhood in.
When he went shopping their always several of us pre-schoolers riding in Mr. Casidys cart.

A while back we were watching TV and ended up watching "Real Cops", the story was about the L.A.P.D. gang squad, After a few minutes I said " holy shit that my old neighborhood of Palms"....

Here in our little town in Alaska, we live 3 1/2 miles out of town, we haven't locked our front door in at least 12 years. Have to leave it unlocked if we go away for a couple days, so someone can come a let the old dog out and check her food and water. Don't even have a house key on my key ring. There is one hanging on a nail on the front porch.

Don't take the keys out of the ignition either, might loose them. Last time I locked my van, I'd had a few too many beers down town and got a ride home.
It's my work van, with about $20,000. worth of tools and parts in it ,I might have been a little drunk but not stupid.

Our oldest son went down to Marin County, Calif. last September for a wedding. Rob was born and raised here in Alaska and has had little experience in the lower 48. He was amazed at the people there.
Rob went grocery shopping one morning and as here he pass people in the aisles and say good morning or hi or hows it go'in? Everyone would turn their head and not make eye contact. Here its considered rude to not say hi or whatever.....
Better close now, you know an old mans ramblings.........Alaskan...

 

Today I went walking in the amber wind,
There's a hole in the sky where the light pours in
I remembered the days when I wasn't afraid of the sunshine.

But now it beats down on the asphalt land
Like a hammering blow from God's left hand
What little still grows cringes in the shade like a bad vine.
-Brent Mydland

 

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Alaskan, you are truly blessed to be residing in such a place as you are now. Seeing your old neighborhood on that Cops show must have really floored you - just another glaring sign that our country is in the "Decline of Empire." We are in a downward spiral, and it hasn't taken us long.

They call it "progress", but it seems like since the Technological Revolution that things have gotten much worse in a fast way - I'm not saying technology did it, I'm just using that as a time-frame reference.

It is written that it took something like ten-thousand years for man to progress from using a stone as a tool to thinking of the idea to tie a stick onto that stone to make it into a better tool ....... in just the last one-hundred years, man has gone from the discovery and utilization of electricity to inventing thermo-nuclear weapons of destruction. And, those of us that are not participating in the invention of such horrible weapons of destruction have no choice, it seems - it would be the furthest thing my my mind to have the inclination to invent such a thing.

It's too late; they've gone too far; and there's nothing we can do about it.
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"They will never make a perfect heart until they make
one that can't be broken."
....... The Wizard, "The Wizard of Oz"
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Hello! I remember my parents telling me they walked 10 miles to get to school and they could buy an ice-cream cone for a nickel. I remember when I could go out trick or treating and not have to worry about getting poison or needles in my treats. I remember when kicking in the balls was considered dirty fighting. I remember being told to be home before the streets lights came on and if I ever got in trouble just run to a cop or priest. I remember when Canada’s public education system supplied all the paper, pencils and after school sport activates.

I remember that they used to have our flag hanging in every classroom and they used to play our National Anthem ever morning over the PA system and we had “Christmas” concerts.

I remember when bulling in the classroom was just a punch in the arm. I remember when besides an occasional war movie there was no violence on TV.

But those days are gone my friend – so sad they had to end. Cheers!

 

I think, for the most part that what you stated was just paranoia. I mean, shit happens, but it's not as common as you make it sound. Either way, I still feel safe