redone4x4
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Re: Personal Security Paranoia
hmm I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago...ya downtown is not the place to hang out, thats for sure. I was too young to know anything about the waterways there at the time though. I would imagine lake michigan with a decent sized boat would be a blast, similar to out on the open ocean. I do once in a while wonder if my truck is okay while im gone, but thats it.
Northern Illinois/Southern Wisconsin state line.
Have Rockford, Illinois' second largest city right here. Milwaukee about an hour away. And Chicago about an hour and change away by highway.
I'm in a very low crime area. I feel safe enough here that leaving car and even house doors unlocked is not automatically cause for alarm.
Frequently, I go for late night walks through the neighborhood, (there are no street lights) always unarmed, and feel perfectly safe and content. Although I have access to a weapon if desired, we keep none in the house.
Even when I lived in high crime areas I never regularly went about armed--although there was one in that particular house.
As far as where I would ultimately boat (I don't own a boat currently), I don't know. The Rock river is closet. Illinois's Chain O' Lakes maybe fifty miles away. Lake Michigan a bit farther.
And that's the real question. Security would or would not be a serious issue contingent upon where I'd be docking. If in Chicago, where I have personally witnessed the aftermath of man's inhumanity to man in the form of dead bodies still lying warm on the street, chalk outlines being drawn, wash down crews scrubbing away the brain matter of the deceased--yes, I'd like to have something on board, a bat, a gun, a two by four with a nail, a machete, a skillet of hot grease--something other than my handsome face and bare fists.
hmm I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago...ya downtown is not the place to hang out, thats for sure. I was too young to know anything about the waterways there at the time though. I would imagine lake michigan with a decent sized boat would be a blast, similar to out on the open ocean. I do once in a while wonder if my truck is okay while im gone, but thats it.