I swear, some places just need to be avoided like the plague! Okay, I work in construction, and one of our subdivisions is in a part of town that has long history & reputation as a "bad" part of town.

Sure enough, our builder headed into our model today to do some maintenance, and found that it had been broken into again (4th time) and now there appears to be some drug paraphenalia in there.

I'm all for trying to help build up run-down parts of town, trying to help revitalize them, but if the community doesn't want to be part of that, then they really shouldn't complain when businesses avoid the area.

Honestly, until they take back their own streets, they shouldn't ask us to come in. Our sales person has been threatened by a drugged up invader, almost every major item has been stolen (twice), a car has been driven through the garage door and into the wall, gun shots have damaged windows, doors, and walls, and now this.