I had a child once who moved to my small city from Detroit. I asked him what he liked best about his new home. He said he got to sleep in a bed, not the bathtub. In Detroit his mother put him and his sisters to bed in the bathtub, the better to protect them from stray bullets which periodically crashed into their ground floor flat.
She had also put plywood over the windows.
There were no night lights as lights attract attention.
He told me he no longer worried about his mother and sisters.
He played chess very well.
