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18. Most likely it is your news source

I live in Houston, TX ... my address says so, but truthfully I live in Champions Forest. Champions Forest is a small community to the North/North East of Houston by a couple of few miles. We can not vote for Mayor and are not policed by Houston Police Department, but the address is what it is.

I certainly see the rise in crime in my area, been here since 2008, and notice the vacancies piling up in the strip centers close to where I live. There are entire strip centers where there were once thriving business that sit vacant and vandalized. I know some of these small business owners who moved, some by just a few miles, to get off 1960 after being broken into multiple times. Was that an economic move? Yes it cost money to repair after damage is done and a small business, no matter what some think, is on a fairly small margin.

I hear about it on the news, daily. I read about it in the local paper, The Houston Conical, daily.

Do I believe it is untrue, no. Do I think that some business move because of it, yes. Do I think it will get worse in this area, yes.

That is the reason for the plans to leave the area and move farther north, past The Woodlands to flee it. My truck was stolen from my home last September, certainly insured ... but it was still a pretty big hit. My taxes, property, continue to rise for both the value of the property and the rate of taxation.

I am not alone.

To think that every story of a major chain moving because it is greed instead of need is, I dunno, kind of naive. But I could be mistaken, you could live in one of the large city areas that is truly getting better. Maybe ....

I dunno. Certainly not the case where I live.