What has happened is it was a nice quiet old neighborhood. Now all the old people have either moved into retirement communities or died and their houses sell for cheap and people rent them out through the government assistance program.
We have one good neighbor who works out of his home and is there during the day, he's a CCW holder and goes to a gym with some of the local police so he helps out a lot but we are out numbered by a large amount.
We have cleaned house and gotten rid of everything we don't need, went though and upgraded anything anyone complained about when the realtors did a showing.
Our biggest problem is the lack of police support, we have a 30 minute response time for them to come and take the report, slap the bad guy on the wrist and let them go.
Last year two drug addicts drove into my house. They got a $65 ticket for failure to maintain control, had enough time to walk back to their house and change clothes to get rid of the drug smell and my insurance ended up paying out 12k in damages.
My problem is while I can stand my ground, my wife and two kids are at home during the day while I'm not. Also to get cheaper home prices requires extending my drive to work to greater then the 30 minutes it is now so finding a house isn't going easy. We have dropped the price on ours to where were not going to get much profit at all which kills the down payment for the next house.
We have been standing our gound for the last couple years and fighting but the re-elections this week the same mayor was re-elected who is at the root of the problem. His philosophy is intergate the bad people with the good and they will get better so they close the government assisted housing in the inner city and move those people out to neighborhoods like ours. Well nine out of ten of the people they move don't want to change and just end up causing trouble. Were basically fighting city hall at the highest level and we don't have enough resources to do it so getting out is really our only other option.
So bugging out for any thing is also our other option. Our one good neighbor has a seroius relationship with a girl living in a suburb so he spends most of his time there when he's not working so its coming down to just us, I can't be there and on guard 24x7 and if we have another major storm like the one a couple years ago I don't want the rest of the hood to see our house as the only one with power and heat, they help themselves to our stuff enough as it is already.