Subject: Re: Can a Limited Utopia Exist?
From: DougL
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.science

James Nicoll wrote:
> In article ,
> Michael Ash wrote:

> >I have no idea if that's truly the case, just wanted to point out the
> >possibility.
>
> I expect that the death toll in these events affects the
> elderly poor more than other groups and that being poor can mean
> living in less desirable neighborhoods. I also expect that an old
> person (or any person [1]) can convince themselves that they live
> in a hive of scum and villainy even when they do not.

My father-in-law lives in a hive of scum and villainy where leaving a
window cracked is an invitation to burglers, where every door must be
locked with both the knob lock and the separate bolt, and where
leaving the garage door open means that the tools will walk off in
seconds.

I live in a nice neighborhood where locking ANY of the doors is mildly
paranoid, and where people with far more valuable tool sets than what
we have do in fact leave their garage open much of the time.

He lives in the extra bedroom on the north end of our house, we live
in the master on the south side. Wierd how we live in totally
different areas....

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