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So that's an expose on a place that really sucks to live.


I wonder what a map of section 8 housing would look like compared with various statistics.

Stereotypes exist for a reason, in case you were wondering.

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That sounds racist to me...

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I've was born and raised in Pine Bluff.  I'm now raising my family in Pine Bluff.  I've never had anything broken into, stolen, vandalized, etc.  Neither has my parents, my grandparents, my siblings, etc.  There's not a part of town I avoid because of fear from being mugged, shot, etc.  As the Chief accurately stated, the crime and violence occurs between the drug addicts and other criminals.  Your average citizen has absolutely little to no chance of having an issue.

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How is Chicago not on that list?  48 murders in January 2012 alone. In one of the most tightly regulated gun citys in america?  Seems like that study may be a little off

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Arkansas was only on the top10 list 3 times.

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Local LEO's in Pine Bluff use a euphemism to be politically correct: "democrats". As in "these 2 democrats knocked over a liquor store."

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Based on the graph in the link, West Memphis is doing it's share to keep this area at #4.  I get the daily crime updates from Olive Branch, MS and most of those are shoplifting at Wal-Mart.  I'm surprised that here in Southaven (same population as Pine Bluff), we have an even lower crime rate than OB.  

http://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-Memphis-Tennessee.html

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It is coming.  I can promise you that.  We own a house in Southaven and I worry about property values eventually dipping more than they already have.  Memphis is slowly spilling over.  Horn Lake is going down the tubes pretty quick.  I know the Walmart in Southaven is slowly turning into the ghetto shopping center.  People in Memphis go there because sales tax is cheaper.

I enjoy the choice of eating establishments, but I cringe every time we go back there.  Goodman Road is a stinking nightmare.  I do not miss my 45 minute, 7.5 mile, commute to work from Southaven to Memphis each day.  I'll take the lower cost of living and the 18 minute, 15 mile, commute with no red lights from the farm to Pine Bluff for work any time.

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I agree about Goodman Road.  I avoid it like the plague by taking Church Road since I live closer to it.  



My wife and I toyed with the idea of moving back to southeast AR but changed our mind after spending the Christmas holiday around family.  They are crazy but we could probably get past that.  On a weekend afternoon, the nearest place to buy a Diet Coke was Lake Village (20 miles away).  Luckily the only working Coke machine in town took a credit card.  We are spoiled by the convenience of everything around us.  I'm 3/4 mile from the drug store.  I'm 1 mile from our veterinarian.  I'm 2 miles from a 24 hour Kroger.  In those 2 miles, there are 9 restaurants on Getwell Road alone.

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Come on now....you know SEARK is a growing metro.....

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I know it is coming but the local police have it under control for NOW.  I'd say that 99% of the theft crimes in the Olive Branch police reports are committed by Memphians so I assume the same is here.

I agree about Goodman Road.  I avoid it like the plague by taking Church Road since I live closer to it.  

My wife and I toyed with the idea of moving back to southeast AR but changed our mind after spending the Christmas holiday around family.  They are crazy but we could probably get past that.  On a weekend afternoon, the nearest place to buy a Diet Coke was Lake Village (20 miles away).  Luckily the only working Coke machine in town took a credit card.  We are spoiled by the convenience of everything around us.  I'm 3/4 mile from the drug store.  I'm 1 mile from our veterinarian.  I'm 2 miles from a 24 hour Kroger.  In those 2 miles, there are 9 restaurants on Getwell Road alone.

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Yes, it is mostly all Memphians committing the crimes.  The problem in Horn Lake is they've not only committed the crimes there but decided to move there as well.  It was the original subdivision area.  Southaven boomed next and then Olive Branch.  Hernando is still a nice area, but it is starting to really boom, too.

Where Walmart and the shopping center behind it is in Southaven was where my wife and her friends used to ride four wheelers in high school.  Her parents still remember Goodman Road when it was gravel and the only thing on it off the interstate was a feed store.

My wife still misses the luxury of all the shopping.  She hates being 20 miles from the closest Walmart, 60+ miles from Target (I can't stand the French), and 10 miles from the closest gas station.  I only lived over there a little over 4 months while she finished up grad school, but when my work offered me a 60% raise to move back to Pine Bluff I packed up the moving truck and came back to the Delta as fast as I could.  I loved the eating joints, but the traffic, cookie cutter houses, and no where to hunt, fish, or trap within 30 miles made me want to walk down Goodman Road with a blindfold on.  I now deer hunt and trap within a 5 minute walk from my backdoor.  The closest fishing hole is our 2 acre pond that is a good 30 seconds walk from the backdoor.  If it gets old we have 2 more and a creek 7/10 of a mile down the road.