Natalie wants to earn enough money to enable her to eventually move into a "better neighbourhood" for her children. She complains that she does not like her sons to be out alone due to all of the aggression and violence that they could witness. Natalie wants desperately to move away from this neighbourhood to one that she feels would be a better place to raise her children. Many of the other families also mention that it is difficult for them to have any privacy under these conditions.

When describing the area where she lives, Beth says "And I see too much. And it's really upsetting to me…You gotta watch your kids. Yeah…you really gotta go outside…" She adds, "Like I mean [my daughter] at one time she didn't want to go outside. She'd go outside somebody would pick a fight with her." Then Beth complains that her children are becoming "mouthy" and she blames that on the neighbourhood children, "I think a lot of their attitudes has…got to do with it around here. I really do."

Beth is considering a mobile home as a low-cost alternative for her family:

I'm gonna call a friend of mine…and - and see about a trailer. Like they say, you don't want to move into a trailer park. Well what's the difference, moving into a trailer park or living in one of these places?…You know…I mean…you-you-you tell me, what's the difference? You don't have to associate with your neighbours [in a trailer].