Cleanliness of a neighborhood is a sign of economic stability

Cleanliness of a neighborhood is a sign of economic stability
and prosperity and pride. Keep the hedges trimmed. Put fresh
mulch by the flowers. Bathrooms should smell nice and fresh.
Sidewalks should be free of mold (especially black mold) and
stains. Streets shouldn't have oil drips on it. This holds true
for homes and it also holds true for businesses, as it also
holds true for the entire community. Collier County FL is a very
clean community. From Vanderbilt Beach to Golden Gate Estates,
95% of Collier County is very clean and fresh. Every area has
its exceptions, but they only serve to prove the rule! Even in
its ugliest parts, Naples FL is more beautiful than many other
places in the USA. There's something that happens to a community
when a little bit of overlooked unkeptness rapidly grows to
overtake the community. It's called the "Broken Window
Syndrome". I mention a little bit about it here:
[1]http://free.naplesplus.us/articles/view.php/6911/broken-window
and
[2]http://free.naplesplus.us/articles/view.php/6917/broken-window-theory-explained
The gist of it is this: Perhaps in a foreclosed (abandoned!)
home, a window is broken. Nobody pays any attention to the
broken window. Yet people drive by, walk by, every day. Kids
play around there. And the grass grows taller and the window
stays broken. Bored kids break in through the broken window to
see what they can see. Perhaps a homeless person crawls in to
make a home. But that's not the main problem. Before you know it
another window is broken elsewhere. Nobody notices. Then
another. Then a fence is broken. A sidewalk is cracked. Nobody
pays it any mind. Before you know it, there is graffitti.
Property values plummet. Places are no longer selling, so they
go for rent. But nobody is renting houses. So house is split up
into rooms. One house has rooms for rent. Then another, then
another. Within a very short time (just a few years at most),
the character of the neighborhood has changed. All starting from
a broken window that nobody paid any attention to. Kenneth Udut
NeighborHelp Referrals' Affordable Trapping 239-465-9291
[3]http://free.naplesplus.us/ - Collier County Electronic
Village P.S. The first time I heard about Broken Window Syndrome
was when I was looking into something called "self-organizing
systems" ( it's related to chaos theory and complexity theory -
I'm a science nut). The short version of it is how a very small,
seemingly insignificant thing is more powerful than it appears
at first. A rumor starts and spreads like wildfire until it
culminates in someone getting fired from a job. A few words
spoken by a VP candidate ends up becoming fodder for Saturday
Night Live and is all over the Internet and the news and spawns
article after article. A fear about a Depression spirals out of
control and ends up CAUSING the very thing it feared! This can
also apply to good things. The whole "Pay-it-Forward" movement
is based on that idea, as is the simple effect of making
yourself say, "Good morning" to everybody in the office (whether
you like them or not) - Good Will, while slower to move than Ill
Will, is very powerful stuff.
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