# I pit dark ass bourgeoisie neighborhoods! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 11, 2025, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-dark-ass-bourgeoisie-neighborhoods/1012829 "2025-01-11T00:50:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-dark-ass-bourgeoisie-neighborhoods/1012829/61 "2025-01-12T04:15:01Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Got lost on the way to the casino I laughed so hard! ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-dark-ass-bourgeoisie-neighborhoods/1012829/62 "2025-01-12T04:51:15Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > I think OP is borderline troll. I don’t think there is a border he isn’t willing to cross. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-dark-ass-bourgeoisie-neighborhoods/1012829/63 "2025-01-12T04:53:19Z")
The one from bright to dark? ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-dark-ass-bourgeoisie-neighborhoods/1012829/64 "2025-01-12T05:12:44Z")
Certainly any border that has a bridge he can hide under. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-dark-ass-bourgeoisie-neighborhoods/1012829/65 "2025-01-12T05:35:16Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > I think OP is borderline troll. Will they come back? I think you’re right, and I apologize for feeding him 🤦🏽‍♀️ ---
**Author:** ![MW\_Degen\_Gamblr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ec9cab/32.png) [@MW\_Degen\_Gamblr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MW_Degen_Gamblr)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-dark-ass-bourgeoisie-neighborhoods/1012829/66 "2025-01-12T05:46:19Z")
I’m gambling yalllll! It’s the motherfucking weekend. Woo hoo! My hands are tied. I’m a busy human with a slightly short attention span, and limited wifi access. I’ll get back to you all with thoughtful replies, soon. Replies to this thread and my other thread (the one about CASH). I will clarify one thing right now though. I am NOT talking about rural areas. Those places are supposed to be dark at night, it is the country! I’m talking about high income areas within cities and the suburbs. I’m not a troll, I don’t even post often enough to qualify as one. And, I’m not a fan of brightly colored hair. Midwest Degenerate Gambler ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-dark-ass-bourgeoisie-neighborhoods/1012829/67 "2025-01-12T05:49:54Z")
@MW_Degen_Gamblr, I love you, but sooner or later, you’re going to have to face the fact you’re a goddamn moron. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-dark-ass-bourgeoisie-neighborhoods/1012829/68 "2025-01-12T07:29:37Z")
Yep, it’s a gamblers fate to walk the dark lonely streets of suburbia. The yellow circle on the pavement from the one stupid fake gas street light is small comfort from the wolves snapping at your heels. Oh wait, that’s just a bassett hound. He warning you not step there. His human had to go get baggies for clean up. . First off, maybe running through strange neighborhoods in bedroom communities is not wise. Dark or not. 2nd, Is there a reason we can’t know why you were in that place, at that time, doing whatever you were doing? ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-dark-ass-bourgeoisie-neighborhoods/1012829/69 "2025-01-12T07:55:39Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Yep, it’s a gamblers fate to walk the dark lonely streets of suburbia. > The yellow circle on the pavement from the one stupid fake gas street light is small comfort from the wolves snapping at your heels. > Oh wait, that’s just a bassett hound. He warning you not step there. His human had to go get baggies for clean up. This cracks me up! ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-dark-ass-bourgeoisie-neighborhoods/1012829/70 "2025-01-12T08:57:40Z")
I sort of agree with the OP. I’m fine with darkness in the wilderness, or in actual rural communities. I’ve done plenty of hiking out in the desert with no lights for miles around; I’ve also worked on a farm. But as a city boy, darkness in suburbs freaks me out. Well. Allow me to correct that: _suburbs in general_ freak me out. Having them go all dark at night just makes them worse. It’s like travelling through a dead city. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-dark-ass-bourgeoisie-neighborhoods/1012829/71 "2025-01-12T10:14:49Z")
I must disagree, few things are as unsettling as modern suburbs in the overly bright artificial light that creates an unknowable time of day. It’s like ‘eclipse’ lighting. It’s unnaturally bright but nothing has a shadow. :::shiver::: ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-dark-ass-bourgeoisie-neighborhoods/1012829/72 "2025-01-12T11:07:35Z")
> [@MW\_Degen\_Gamblr](#): > > I’m talking about high income areas within cities and the suburbs. The better to rob us with… > **[Professional athletes’ homes are still getting broken into. Here’s how the...](https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/11/us/professional-athlete-break-ins-fbi/index.html)** > > Federal investigators are now warning professional athletes across multiple sports following a rise in sophisticated home burglaries thought to be emanating from international criminals. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-dark-ass-bourgeoisie-neighborhoods/1012829/73 "2025-01-12T15:59:29Z")
> [@MW\_Degen\_Gamblr](#): > > I’m talking about high income areas within cities and the suburbs. My guess is they don’t _want_ degenerate gamblers in their neighborhoods. I would not be surprised if they turned off the lights when you approach. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-dark-ass-bourgeoisie-neighborhoods/1012829/74 "2025-01-12T16:42:08Z")
The Chicago area has the suburb of [ Riverside](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverside,_Illinois), where my wife grew up. Nearly all of the town’s streets curve, and they have (or used to) only very inefficient gas street lights. I believe this has changed, but the rule used to be that when parked on the town’s streets at night, you had to have your warning lights on. Now THAT was a stupid aspect of poor municipal lighting! I used to figure the town’s governmnet had to have a sweetheart deal with a local towing/road service company that jumped all of the dead batteries! ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-dark-ass-bourgeoisie-neighborhoods/1012829/75 "2025-01-12T16:45:15Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > The Chicago area has the suburb of [ > Riverside](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverside,_Illinois), where my wife grew up. Nearly all of the town’s streets curve, and they have (or used to) only very inefficient gas street lights. I believe this has changed, but the rule used to be that when parked on the town’s streets at night, you had to have your warning lights on. Some friends of mine lived in Riverside in the early '90s, and they told me about the same thing. They told me that the village insisted that those were “parking lights” on cars, and that’s what they are there for. 😛 My personal thought is that Riverside is way too hung up on being a beautiful, planned community, and part of that is actively discouraging people from parking unplanned cars on their beautiful, curving, confusing streets. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-dark-ass-bourgeoisie-neighborhoods/1012829/76 "2025-01-12T16:58:11Z")
I read both threads. Could they be connected? You had won some _“benjamins”_ had a fat pocket because the ticket-y ticket machine fouled up. Thought you could get to your lodging thru a neighborhood rather than call an Uber. Found yourself nervous walking thru a poorly lit area. I mean tryin’ to 'splain all those small bills if cops or neighborhood watch folks noticed you. Not to mention, possibly getting held up. Remember criminals like noticing people walking from a casino with fat pockets. In fact it’s their career. Yep, shoulda called that Taxi. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-dark-ass-bourgeoisie-neighborhoods/1012829/77 "2025-01-12T17:04:47Z")
With sleuthing like that I think maybe Beck oughta to get a cable TV show solving mysteries every week. We’ll give her a new stage name, maybe Agatha something. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-dark-ass-bourgeoisie-neighborhoods/1012829/78 "2025-01-12T17:12:30Z")
Oooh, can I have goofy side kick? Indispensable, but a bit on the dingy side? Oh, and I’ll need a deer stalker hat and a spy glass. 🫣 ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-dark-ass-bourgeoisie-neighborhoods/1012829/79 "2025-01-12T17:15:16Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Oooh, can I have goofy side kick? > > Indispensable, but a bit on the dingy side? Sounds like a role that a scruffy armadillo or possum could play. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-dark-ass-bourgeoisie-neighborhoods/1012829/80 "2025-01-12T18:10:02Z")
You da star of your own fantasy, honey. You can have _whatever_ you want. I hear Tom Selleck is available and hasn’t aged a wink since that Magum, P.I. gig. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-dark-ass-bourgeoisie-neighborhoods/1012829.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-dark-ass-bourgeoisie-neighborhoods/1012829.md?page=5)