Brandy, good for you young lady. This community has issues, there's no doubt about it. However, there's still many good, strong families here and in my opinion the area I live in is great. We have good neighbors who look out for each other. Our kids played in the yard with the neighbor's kids.
You can make out of a community what you want it to be. I'll die here someday and they can put on my tombstone that he was a hometown boy.
You're a glass is half full person Brandy. God love ya.