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Old 11-25-2012, 07:32 AM
 
Location: Beaver County
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Heroin is in all the suburbs. Boggles my mind. It's the one thing we knew not to even try in the 70s.
So often starts off using opiates out of mom and dads medicine cabinet...or friends parents. As Tolerence builds heroin is simply much cheaper. Having worked in the addiction field for years the rise of opiate dependency in middle and upper class suburbs has been happening for awhile....but denial is a powerful thing.
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Old 11-25-2012, 01:01 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh, PA (Morningside)
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Heroin is in all the suburbs. Boggles my mind. It's the one thing we knew not to even try in the 70s.
Are you really that shocked? I grew up in a pretty tony part of the Connecticut burbs in the 1990s, and I certainly knew "nice kids" from middle-class families who did hard drugs. Admittedly, crack was more popular than heroin though.
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Old 11-25-2012, 03:22 PM
 
Location: Alexandria, VA
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I had no idea Castle Shannon and Brentwood had gotten bad - my family homestead "established" in Castle Shannon (many roads names after my ancestors) - what a shame.
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Old 11-25-2012, 03:23 PM
 
Location: Mid-Atlantic
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I had no idea Castle Shannon and Brentwood had gotten bad - my family homestead "established" in Castle Shannon (many roads names after my ancestors) - what a shame.

I don't think Castle Shannon has gotten that bad, it's still close to Lebo and benefits from that.
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Old 11-25-2012, 03:40 PM
 
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Neither have gotten bad, though "bad" part of Brentwood is way sketchier than Castle Shanon at it's worse...
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Old 11-25-2012, 04:39 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh PA
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I seriously have to laugh at the idea of Bethel Park, Castle Shannon, and Brentwood being considered bad areas. They are safe suburban areas that like everywhere else suffer from the occasional crime. I feel much safer in those three areas than I do in most areas of the city and find it ridiculous that a few crimes leads to the area being considered undesirable
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Old 11-25-2012, 05:09 PM
 
Location: 15206
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These areas didn't "become bad" and haven't been bad.

The simplistic idea that there's almost no crime in the suburbs and that the city is riddled with crime seems to be a trend on here with some people and it is absolutely false.

I know people from the south hills as well as the fox chapel area who have been victims of violent crime as well as theft and burglary. I know people from the city who have been the victim of theft, burglary, robbery. I've lived in both areas and while you need to watch out a bit more in the city and lock your door when you aren't home, I've been a victim of burglary, vandalism and theft (separate incidents) just a bit more in 10 years in the South Hills than 16 years in the East End - and it wasn't a lot. My worst incident all in all was a stolen bike in Oakland, but I didn't have it locked outside.
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Old 11-25-2012, 05:39 PM
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Location: Pittsburgh
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fox chapel area who have been victims of violent crime..
Prove it! Sorry, but I would have heard about something like that in my neighborhood. The worst thing around here is some idiot kid spray painting something or doing some dumb vandalizing. Hardly "violent crime". Sorry, but there ISN'T any here. NONE!
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Old 11-25-2012, 06:26 PM
 
Location: somewhere near Pittsburgh, PA
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I seriously have to laugh at the idea of Bethel Park, Castle Shannon, and Brentwood being considered bad areas. They are safe suburban areas that like everywhere else suffer from the occasional crime. I feel much safer in those three areas than I do in most areas of the city and find it ridiculous that a few crimes leads to the area being considered undesirable
I agree. This whole thread is laughable. I moved up here from Florida and Bethel Park was where I first lived after the move, and I still have family there now. Bethel Park still feels like Mayberry to me.

So one guy holds up a Dairy Queen and suddenly Bethel Park becomes Detroit. You Pittsburghers can be such sheltered people.
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Old 11-25-2012, 06:43 PM
 
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Prove it! Sorry, but I would have heard about something like that in my neighborhood. The worst thing around here is some idiot kid spray painting something or doing some dumb vandalizing. Hardly "violent crime". Sorry, but there ISN'T any here. NONE!
Do you know how many victims of sexual violence never tell anyone it happened?


Just an example of a crime you, and nobody else, will likely hear about.
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