[goodguy29495]

It just seems to be so brutal to be poor.

After years of living in San Mateo county, I moved across the bay to a reasonably nice apartment complex in Hayward. Within a week, I noticed pro-nazi messages in Spanish carved into the picnic tables at the local park. Within a few months, my car had been broken into twice, my garage had been broken in 4 times, and someone set a bush on fire next to my car and it melted some of the plastic on the front driver's quarter panel. I moved away but not everyone has the option.

I get why people work so hard to avoid being poor!

[piecerough]

That seems brutal, indeed. Why did you move there in the first place?