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Couldn’t help but get in another little dig on T-town. (Not sure that Old Town counts as a downtown.) Of course, my city of four years has no downtown.

Isn’t what you write about — this anxiety — a lot about perception and not necessarily about quantifiable facts — meaning we’ve heard so much about crime rates dropping. Yet I still hear and read people who feel as if that’s not the case. I know someone who is nervous about permitting her teen daughter to walk home from RBV in the afternoon after practice.

Could it be that we are more, uh — trying to not say “paranoid” — sensitive to fears of crime when we are parents (today) than when we were kids? I used to walk or ride to the liquor store at Santa Fe/Bobier to buy baseball cards. I doubt that neighborhood next to Vista High was all that safer back then. Yet that was common practice for us (I lived near Bobier Elementary until age 13.)

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Couldn’t help but get in another little dig on T-town. (Not sure that Old Town counts as a downtown.) Of course, my city of four years has no downtown.

Isn’t what you write about — this anxiety — a lot about perception and not necessarily about quantifiable facts — meaning we’ve heard so much about crime rates dropping. Yet I still hear and read people who feel as if that’s not the case. I know someone who is nervous about permitting her teen daughter to walk home from RBV in the afternoon after practice.

Could it be that we are more, uh — trying to not say “paranoid” — sensitive to fears of crime when we are parents (today) than when we were kids? I used to walk or ride to the liquor store at Santa Fe/Bobier to buy baseball cards. I doubt that neighborhood next to Vista High was all that safer back then. Yet that was common practice for us (I lived near Bobier Elementary until age 13.)

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Couldn’t help but get in another little dig on T-town. (Not sure that Old Town counts as a downtown.) Of course, my city of four years has no downtown.

Isn’t what you write about — this anxiety — a lot about perception and not necessarily about quantifiable facts — meaning we’ve heard so much about crime rates dropping. Yet I still hear and read people who feel as if that’s not the case. I know someone who is nervous about permitting her teen daughter to walk home from RBV in the afternoon after practice.

Could it be that we are more, uh — trying to not say “paranoid” — sensitive to fears of crime when we are parents (today) than when we were kids? I used to walk or ride to the liquor store at Santa Fe/Bobier to buy baseball cards. I doubt that neighborhood next to Vista High was all that safer back then. Yet that was common practice for us (I lived near Bobier Elementary until age 13.)

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Couldn’t help but get in another little dig on T-town. (Not sure that Old Town counts as a downtown.) Of course, my city of four years has no downtown.

Isn’t what you write about — this anxiety — a lot about perception and not necessarily about quantifiable facts — meaning we’ve heard so much about crime rates dropping. Yet I still hear and read people who feel as if that’s not the case. I know someone who is nervous about permitting her teen daughter to walk home from RBV in the afternoon after practice.

Could it be that we are more, uh — trying to not say “paranoid” — sensitive to fears of crime when we are parents (today) than when we were kids? I used to walk or ride to the liquor store at Santa Fe/Bobier to buy baseball cards. I doubt that neighborhood next to Vista High was all that safer back then. Yet that was common practice for us (I lived near Bobier Elementary until age 13.)

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Couldn’t help but get in another little dig on T-town. (Not sure that Old Town counts as a downtown.) Of course, my city of four years has no downtown.

Isn’t what you write about — this anxiety — a lot about perception and not necessarily about quantifiable facts — meaning we’ve heard so much about crime rates dropping. Yet I still hear and read people who feel as if that’s not the case. I know someone who is nervous about permitting her teen daughter to walk home from RBV in the afternoon after practice.

Could it be that we are more, uh — trying to not say “paranoid” — sensitive to fears of crime when we are parents (today) than when we were kids? I used to walk or ride to the liquor store at Santa Fe/Bobier to buy baseball cards. I doubt that neighborhood next to Vista High was all that safer back then. Yet that was common practice for us (I lived near Bobier Elementary until age 13.)

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[quote=afx114]Hey, I grew up in Vista. Watch your mouths. :)[/quote]

AFX,

1983 to, gosh, 2003 for me, with 2 1/2 years in there for college in OC.

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[quote=afx114]Hey, I grew up in Vista. Watch your mouths. :)[/quote]

AFX,

1983 to, gosh, 2003 for me, with 2 1/2 years in there for college in OC.

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[quote=afx114]Hey, I grew up in Vista. Watch your mouths. :)[/quote]

AFX,

1983 to, gosh, 2003 for me, with 2 1/2 years in there for college in OC.

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[quote=afx114]Hey, I grew up in Vista. Watch your mouths. :)[/quote]

AFX,

1983 to, gosh, 2003 for me, with 2 1/2 years in there for college in OC.

[smshorttimer]

[quote=afx114]Hey, I grew up in Vista. Watch your mouths. :)[/quote]

AFX,

1983 to, gosh, 2003 for me, with 2 1/2 years in there for college in OC.

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I was too late in amending my post. …

“Sure, I’d rather ride a place such as Snowbird full time. … It’s funny, but my first promising job lead out of college — well, I was still in college — was in Fort Lauderdale. Did a phone interview and completed a test by mail, but I didn’t fly for the in-person because I still had a month or so left of school (and about make a certain. common proposal). I still haven’t stepped foot in Fla. 12 years later. I visit through my stepbrother’s posts on Facebook, and I’m OK with that.”

Man, how different things might have been.

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I was too late in amending my post. …

“Sure, I’d rather ride a place such as Snowbird full time. … It’s funny, but my first promising job lead out of college — well, I was still in college — was in Fort Lauderdale. Did a phone interview and completed a test by mail, but I didn’t fly for the in-person because I still had a month or so left of school (and about make a certain. common proposal). I still haven’t stepped foot in Fla. 12 years later. I visit through my stepbrother’s posts on Facebook, and I’m OK with that.”

Man, how different things might have been.

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I was too late in amending my post. …

“Sure, I’d rather ride a place such as Snowbird full time. … It’s funny, but my first promising job lead out of college — well, I was still in college — was in Fort Lauderdale. Did a phone interview and completed a test by mail, but I didn’t fly for the in-person because I still had a month or so left of school (and about make a certain. common proposal). I still haven’t stepped foot in Fla. 12 years later. I visit through my stepbrother’s posts on Facebook, and I’m OK with that.”

Man, how different things might have been.

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I was too late in amending my post. …

“Sure, I’d rather ride a place such as Snowbird full time. … It’s funny, but my first promising job lead out of college — well, I was still in college — was in Fort Lauderdale. Did a phone interview and completed a test by mail, but I didn’t fly for the in-person because I still had a month or so left of school (and about make a certain. common proposal). I still haven’t stepped foot in Fla. 12 years later. I visit through my stepbrother’s posts on Facebook, and I’m OK with that.”

Man, how different things might have been.

[smshorttimer]

I was too late in amending my post. …

“Sure, I’d rather ride a place such as Snowbird full time. … It’s funny, but my first promising job lead out of college — well, I was still in college — was in Fort Lauderdale. Did a phone interview and completed a test by mail, but I didn’t fly for the in-person because I still had a month or so left of school (and about make a certain. common proposal). I still haven’t stepped foot in Fla. 12 years later. I visit through my stepbrother’s posts on Facebook, and I’m OK with that.”

Man, how different things might have been.

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