[Dan31688]

I never grew up in the inner city or a 'barrio' suburb, but I didn't grow up in a posh neighborhood, either. My neighborhood sort of straddles the line between working and middle class, and by middle class I mean an electrician or low-end office worker and not a lawyer or doctor. There are more 'peckerwood' types than gangbangers. And all the drugs and illicit stuff mostly stays within people's homes and not on the streets. All-in-all, pretty decent. But across town on the western side, things are really posh. Four- or five-star restaurants, fancy hotels, $600,000+ houses, etc. I don't really go over there too much except to go to school. It does feel kind of weird traversing around there clad in cutoff Dickies and battered work boots, with a hard-edged demeanor about me. Sometimes people seem to assume I'm entirely out of place, and others do their darndest to pretend I'm nothing out of the ordinary. I don't think I'd want to live there, because I'd lose my identity, and I'd rather be surrounded by construction workers than high-society types. As for my friends from the barrios, they're always darting their eyes around making sure the cops aren't on their tail.

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Name : Dan31688, Gender : M, Race : Hispanic/Latino (may be any race), Religion : Pentecostal Christian, Age : 21, City : Los Angeles area, State : CA Country : United States, Occupation : Student, Social class : Lower middle class, 

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