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My family didn't have calendars, so they didn't know it was the 50's.
My parents were so poor that when the bill collectors asked how they would pay up, and they said, "All we have is time...." they took that time away from them and they were actually stuck in the 1940's for another eight years.
There are still many places that have a stereotypical 1950s style way about them.
I think alot of cities and even many small towns are terrible places to live and I just can't figure out why people would subject themselves to an area where they have to constantly encounter the bad influences and deviants of society.
I don't remember the rabid sense of entitlement ever being anything like this even in the 90s or early part of the last decade.
I lived in Utah County, Utah and it felt like the 1950s stereotype that one see's on the sitcoms.
Many towns in North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Iowa still are still culturally like it used to be except they have all modern stuff of course.
Most of the places with the old-fashioned 1950s stereotypical lifestyle are in colder climates though in my opinion.
I think in general though as far as manners, niceness, politeness and humbleness it is a downward spiral nationwide but luckily there are still some nice, old fashioned areas.
People live where they can afford to live. In other cases, they've lived in the same home for forty years and change is too hard for them.
Lucky for us that we have a choice in the matter. Not everyone is so fortunate.
Growing up in the '90s we didn't lock our doors either, and this was in Philadelphia. Of course we didn't have much of anything of value-and our house was broken into, but just once LOL.
Humans have been building locks for centuries. There's a reason for that.
There's never been a time when people didn't have to lock their doors. That's not to say that you can't leave your home unlocked and not worry about a break-in. But NOBODY will leave their home unlocked on purpose for any real extended period of time.
My parents never locked their doors and no one ever came in or touched a thing. I didn't lock my doors until the last several years when crime started to increase in my area.
I leave my door unlocked sometimes, because I live like 80 ft up on the 5th floor. And you need to get past a door man to even get to my apartment. But the reality is, if someone really wanted to break into my place, I'm sure locks won't stop them.
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