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where i grew up was far from the suburbs or any "master-planned community." I grew up right smack in the middle of Memphis, probably not, actually definately not the best neighborhood. This influenced the way i am very much so. The kids i grew up with were a little more street wise than most of those from the suburbs. For example out of the 5 of us 2 are dead, 1 is in prison, and then me and rick are the only two doing alright. There was no "corporate monster" schemeing beneath our society, unless it was the police. All of our homes were owned or atleast partly owned by the family that lived in it, not by someone with a rather large wallet, own built identical houses for us to live in. Each house was unique and different in every way from the way it looked, to the way it smelt, to the culture or lifestyle of the family or families that lived in them. There was a little more to be cautious about in my neighborhood, more so than a typical suburb atleast