crime now

Due the high cost of living, both the husband and the wife get jobs outside their homes. At one time men worked and women stayed home, but now most houses are empty because both the man and woman have a job that requires them to be gone for many hours. As a result of this most crooks know that houses are easy prey after 9AM.

So crooks only need to cruise the neighborhood in the morning and look for houses were both cars are gone. You can often see them in their old rusty pickup trucks slowly casing an upscale neighborhood. They will ask me, "Do you know "where John Miller lives?" as if I were foolish enough to believe that they have friends in this pretty place.