I'm with J. Time to move. No job is worth it, and its only a matter of time before bullets fly, and no amount of kung-fu is gonna stop lead.

I left Chicago for many reasons, but one of them is because, imho, the city was just getting too $|-|itty for me. I don't like worrying about my wife as she walks home from the bus stop, etc. I had grills stolen out of my backyard twice last summer, garage door tagged several times, and some seriously weird stuff going on with my neighbor who lived below me (cops coming by all the time, warrants, etc).

The sad truth is, most of the big US cities come with a certain amount of danger and crime. If you can live with it, rock on, but it ain't for me.

But all that said, the goblins are everywhere, its just nice to live somewhere with a seemingly smaller goblin population.

Bart