Wow... I AM from the ghetto AFTER ALL!

There is an article on MSNBC about this report that came out naming the most stressed cities, which might as well be called "where is the hood".. Well.. coming up in the Medium-sized cities division is... MY HOMETOWN!!! (see if you can guess/remember which it is - as if someone who didn't know where I'm from is even reading this)... The bottom and top ten lists are here.. First of all.. I didn't know my hometown was a medium-sized city.. On top of that, I always felt we grew up on the verge of the middle class, and maybe even scraped into it for a few years.. My father was a business "owner", but I guess it's true.. someone has to run the gas stations in the hood (which is what my pops did for about 20 years).. it doesn't make it the case that I came up rough, but I can now, with certainty say I came from "the hood" (actually, I can't.. was my city one of the most stressed in the 80's? Was it even medium-sized in the 80s?).. And on third thought, my guess is that part of the reason why might be the number of households where none of the residents over 13 speak english.. My city and those neighboring it have seen steady increases in Latinos since I can remember. What's crazy is that while I was in Tijuana this summer, standing in line to cross back into the US, I saw that some of the bus companies offering rides to destinations in the States (think the "Chinatown bus" that runs between Philadelphia and New York) one of the destinations of suburbs besides East Los Angeles and Santa Ana was my city -- I was surprised, even though it made sense..