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Consultants' Final Report - Page 46 <br />This divergence reflects a salient difference in the way home owners and <br />women calculate costs and benefits. In the unstructured portions of the interviews, <br />many home owners expressed feelings of resignation. One respondent who had <br />lived in the vicinity of an adult business for more than thirty years, for example, <br />told us that the social and economic costs of moving to another neighborhood <br />precluded this option; and in any event, there would no guarantee that adult <br />businesses would not eventually move into the new neighborhood. On the other <br />hand, many women respondents expressed overwhelming fear for their safety and <br />the safety of their children. One woman respondent with three young children <br />told us that she had already moved because one of her children had been harassed <br />by a man who she believed was a customer of an adult business. Although her <br />new apartment was smaller and more expensive, she believed that the move was <br />absolutely necessary for the safety of her children. Anecdotal data of this sort are <br />not amenable to statistical analysis. Nevertheless, these data provide a context for <br />interpreting the objective item responses of our survey. <br />EVER00392 <br />