BO (before 0bama) You could have some certainty that if you picked a neighborhood based on values and prices that your neighbors wouldn't be at the far end of the cultural scale from you, but now, using your own tax dollars to buy property that the underachievers would never be able to afford (and have zero interest in maintaining) thanks to thee government you can have the thrill of living in da hood without ever having to move.
You forgot to mention the loud, drunken brawls in the street an hour after bar closing time when their slutty daughter drags home a few inebriated young tomcats to fight over who gets to be her sperm donor for the evening.
Yeah, lived next to Section 8 once.