[jlady]

Summer driving tip-crack your window a bit when first getting into your car to let out the hot air, even if you have the air conditioning on. Makes a big difference.

[aqualung8705]

Originally Posted by MomMom

Riff raff? If people can afford a house, especially now with stricter lending guidelines, then you can't pick and choose who can live in it?

If anything at all, the riff raff have already left their "investments", damaged, unkept and stripped of whatever the builder put into them.

What's happening now is that we're getting people who can AFFORD their homes, who really want to live here in Las Vegas and are being given the chance (due to affordability) to have the American Dream..in Las Vegas!

I agree with MomMom. Now that things are cheaper, there's a slight chance that I'll be able to own my own home. Renting is all well and good, but I don't want to be told if I can have dogs, and how many.

[healthpub]

Originally Posted by Tiger Beer

I've never understood the concept of people 'giving up' on their park, and warning signs, or well-known NOT to go there.

When things get to that point, it means there needs to be serious concern to do something about it.

If you go to almost any other country in the world...the community areas that everyone shares are generally fine all the time...and no one just 'gives over' large public areas to thugs or criminals or whatever to work.

The very same park that 18, 17, 16 and 15 years ago my father would take me to to play tennis and where families in our neighborhood would have sundown picnics, is now the very same park (18 years later) that has signs advising residents to avoid being in past sundown.

Of course you don't go from one extreme (picnics) to another extreme (warning signs) over-night or over several weeks or over a few years. However, what allows occasional incidents, if they begin to occur, to accumulate is when we, as individuals, seek only to avoid the trouble. Yes, we protect ourselves at the individual level (which IS important), but the neighborhood MAY suffer as a whole, if everyone within the neighborhood is thinking only at the individual level.

This is why, I feel, when we seek only to avoid problems (crime), we end up accommodating the problems (crime).

I definitely understand any opinions that differ from mine, but I only feel this way because of what my childhood neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio has become over the years. And it happened this way, I know, because we accommodated issues as we avoided them.

[healthpub]

Now as a Las Vegan ...

I see parallels with my time in the southwest part of town, where I lived for one year when I moved here 3 years ago. I see things, though subtly, changing, only because problems are being accommodated by being avoided.

[jfkIII]

maybe it's because it's still the same people who accommodated by avoiding back where they came from? Too many move to LV, expecting the city to make things right for them. When the same problems creep up, they blame it on LV, not themselves.

[tijlover]

Originally Posted by jfkIII

Always wash your hands after going to the bathroom.

Inconclusive advice! Hands AND feet!

[tijlover]

Originally Posted by Chest Rockwell

You just said that the area between Russell and Craig is all pretty bad? You should really be more specific, since you've included the entire UNLV campus, the very nice Hughes Center, the entire John S. Park neighborhood and many other wonderful parts of Las Vegas.

How about just including the entire area between California and Utah, since we're going to be so vague?

If I were a professional mugger or car thief, and I was reading these posts, inadvertently, you would be steering me to the areas of town that I'd find the least suspecting and it would be most profitable for all my time, energies and creativity. With any of these posts where you'd be all but guaranteeing someone's safety, they would be the areas I'd concentrate on.

Let's stop helping the criminals in this city with some of these ludicrous posts on safety. NO PLACE is safe ANYWHERE in this city, county, state or country!

[aqualung8705]

Originally Posted by tijlover

Inconclusive advice! Hands AND feet!

I love those signs in stores/restaurants that say, "Employees must wash their hands before returning to work." I've always been tempted to write underneath, "Everyone else feel free to smear their kuso on the wall."

[olecapt]

Originally Posted by tijlover

If I were a professional mugger or car thief, and I was reading these posts, inadvertently, you would be steering me to the areas of town that I'd find the least suspecting and it would be most profitable for all my time, energies and creativity. With any of these posts where you'd be all but guaranteeing someone's safety, they would be the areas I'd concentrate on.

Let's stop helping the criminals in this city with some of these ludicrous posts on safety. NO PLACE is safe ANYWHERE in this city, county, state or country!

Pass the grain of salt. It is reasonably clear crime is well down from where it was 20 years ago. You hear anyone feeling safer? But they are.

When I was a kid we went to the park as a group or even one or two at a time.

My children went to the park pretty much by themselves. But my children's children...no way much too unsafe. Actually it was far less safe when my children walked there by themselves.

No facts in this argument though. We all know it is worse than it use to be...

[aqualung8705]

I go to the park with my dogs, and I'm never worried. If anyone ever attacks me, my dogs will lick them to death.