Interesting how this will play out

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Crap like this is exactly why I am planning my escape from Aurora. I know stuff like this can happen anywhere but what used to be nice areas of Aurora are becoming crime ridden ghettos full of didntdonuffins. This garbage is starting to become the norm, not the exception. If I didn't have family obligations trapping me here, I would have been gone already. Anyone contemplating moving to Aurora - Don't.

[Honey Badger282.8]

Crap like this is exactly why I am planning my escape from Aurora. I know stuff like this can happen anywhere but what used to be nice areas of Aurora are becoming crime ridden ghettos full of didntdonuffins. This garbage is starting to become the norm, not the exception. If I didn't have family obligations trapping me here, I would have been gone already. Anyone contemplating moving to Aurora - Don't.

I've only been back in the state for a few months but it seems to me that all the gentrification in Denver is forcing all of the riff-raff to Aurora.

[mutt]

I've only been back in the state for a few months but it seems to me that all the gentrification in Denver is forcing all of the riff-raff to Aurora.

The riff raff were always here but they lived elsewhere. My theory is the housing crash in 2008/2009 put tons of foreclosures on the market and they became rentals. That, along with the bad economy, drove down rents and the Free Shit Army could use their housing vouchers to live in areas previously beyond their means. At least that's when I noticed things going south in my area. One can only hope the rising house prices will start reversing the downward spiral but I don't plan to stay regardless.