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So we've decided that we're going to vacate our lease. There are no penalties to be incurred because we already outstayed our original commitment and have been payining month to month since. Two leading options are a place that's much bigger and ostensibly nicer but in a worse neighborhood and a place that's either equivalent to what we have now or slightly worse than what we have now but in a nicer neighborhood and more expensive. I'm leaning towards the latter but better-half is arguing the former by appealing to my reflexive frugality and she might be winning.
Since last night, there's been a meth-head in the park across the street from me, behaving erratically, dancing like a zombie, and occasionally wondering around in a stupor. The police have shown up a couple times, but there is apparently nothing illegal about being a deranged meth-head. Medics and fire department staff showed up as well, but she is apparently capable of continuing to shamble around looking insane.
While my neighborhood is ostensibly a "good neighborhood", this sort of thing definitely leads me to favor the sorts of neighborhoods that don't really tolerate meth-heads at all. Personally, I would be willing to pay a fair bit to not have people like this around. I suppose this is also a reminder that "good neighborhood" sometimes has as much to do with what the residents are willing to tolerate as it does with the quality of the residents themselves, at least in cities.
"Nothing illegal about being a deranged meth-head?" To my understanding the associated activity is in fact illegal. Is acting like a druggy not enough to infer the use of illegal drugs?
My impression is that the crime is possession rather than use. IANAL and live in a city that probably isn't enforcing possession all that tightly though, so grains of salt.
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