You know you live in the ghetto when...
someone steals the actual garage door (the one meant for cars) off the abandoned house next door in broad daylight on a weekend. We came home from church around 11:15 and it (and the garage door opener) were gone by 2. I'm sure it had some value for scrap metal, and the opener could be pawned. But seriously--stealing something that big? That takes some planning. Even the local neighborhood association thought this was a new one.
Of course the house is abandoned because its caught up in a scam that was part of the larger mortgage crisis, which itself is having its strongest toll on our much poorer than average area. But that's the big picture.