# There Goes the Neighborhood: How do Creepers Find Themselves in Nice Neighborhoods **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 16, 2012, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-goes-the-neighborhood-how-do-creepers-find-themselves-in-nice-neighborhoods/637887 "2012-10-16T14:39:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2012, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-goes-the-neighborhood-how-do-creepers-find-themselves-in-nice-neighborhoods/637887/41 "2012-10-21T03:26:53Z")
Snark aside the presence of a Walmart generally means there is a substantial middle and lower middle class demographic in your area or else they would not be there in the first place as that is their primary bread and butter target market, so you may be somewhat overestimating the relative demographic niceness of your area relative to others. The other mistake is that thinking the absence of lower class urban signifiers (ie White Castle and Church’s Chicken, pawn shops, hole in the wall dive bars) is important. Poverty, desperation and pimp stylin’ play out in differently in the suburbia than they do in the inner city. As to a relatively greater presence and visibility of hookers, thug wannabees and Jr. pimps in the immediate environment, assuming this is an accurate observation not just middle class white lady discomfort, that’s generally going to be highly correlated to low/lower cost housing opportunities in the area and (importantly) police prioritization. In areas where police presence has been cut back due to lack of municipal resources opportunists will infill quickly if they think they can do business without police oversight. Horney men are everywhere and if they can pick up a hooker and get an undisturbed blowjob at the back mall parking lot or in the cul-de-sac of your neighborhood that’s where they are going to go and their service providers will follow them. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2012, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-goes-the-neighborhood-how-do-creepers-find-themselves-in-nice-neighborhoods/637887/42 "2012-10-21T04:54:59Z")
> [@grude](#): > > Huh? The use of creeper in the OP confuses me, I’ve always taken it to mean someone who is creepy in a sexual way but not all the way to criminal. Like a grown man complimenting middle school girls on their developing bodies or something, ugh goddamn a fucking creeper. I thought it was a green creature that sneaks up on you and explodes. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2012, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-goes-the-neighborhood-how-do-creepers-find-themselves-in-nice-neighborhoods/637887/43 "2012-10-21T05:10:18Z")
> [@astro](#): > > Horney men can pick up a hooker and get an undisturbed blowjob at the back mall parking lot or in the cul-de-sac of your neighborhood. You seem very knowledgeable about such activities. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2012, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-goes-the-neighborhood-how-do-creepers-find-themselves-in-nice-neighborhoods/637887/44 "2012-10-21T07:44:13Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > You seem very knowledgeable about such activities. 😃 Being a healthy hetero single guy you might think so, but personally I would never approach a prostitute to get serviced. It’s not even in my universe. ---
**Author:** ![activgurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7cd45c/32.png) [@activgurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/activgurl)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2012, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-goes-the-neighborhood-how-do-creepers-find-themselves-in-nice-neighborhoods/637887/45 "2012-10-22T14:55:11Z")
> [@astro](#): > > Snark aside the presence of a Walmart generally means there is a substantial middle and lower middle class demographic in your area or else they would not be there in the first place as that is their primary bread and butter target market, so you may be somewhat overestimating the relative demographic niceness of your area relative to others. Shit! I guess my area doesn’t qualify. Walmart wouldn’t build here; they went across the river to Ohio. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2012, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-goes-the-neighborhood-how-do-creepers-find-themselves-in-nice-neighborhoods/637887/46 "2012-10-22T15:13:53Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Yelp? Seeing this as the first response made me snort. And since I’m in a doctor’s waiting room it was kind of embarrassing. Thanks for that. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2012, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-goes-the-neighborhood-how-do-creepers-find-themselves-in-nice-neighborhoods/637887/47 "2012-10-22T15:59:48Z")
> [@Doug\_K](#): > > I thought it was a green creature that sneaks up on you and explodes. Curses! That’s what I thought as soon as I read the thread title. ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2012, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-goes-the-neighborhood-how-do-creepers-find-themselves-in-nice-neighborhoods/637887/48 "2012-10-22T19:57:37Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > I don’t think that I’d want a pine tar handjob. Ah yes, the ol’ Cal Ripskin. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-goes-the-neighborhood-how-do-creepers-find-themselves-in-nice-neighborhoods/637887.md?page=2)