I lived in a lower class white neighbourhood as a child. Recently I was talking to a parent about raising kids in this shitty brown neighbourhood and I almost cried thinking about it. I spent every day outside until dark wandering and exploring and just sitting around in the dirt poking ants nests and shit like that... I realized that even as an adult, that really isn't an option around here unless you have tolerance for losers and junkies and drunks. Kids just grow up seeing rampant inferiority and thinking it's normal. They rarely go outside unless they travel somewhere by car. In bed by 8pm on a summer night. It's fucking disgusting. It was a shock moving from that white neighbourhood to an immigrant neighbourhood, then the real hood. But it prepared me a little for being homeless as a teenager. I probably wouldn't have made it coming straight from the suburbs.