Do any of you live in a not nice neighborhood, aka "the hood"? How do you deal with it?

We used to. I loved my cute house and put in a $20,000 new backyard with hot tub and all. But it was not a good neighborhood at all and on the 3rd incident of gunshots VERY close to our house, we put it up for sale and I took money out of my retirement account to put a down payment on house in a safer neighborhood. This was in the middle of the pandemic.
You get what you pay for. I was willing to take the financial hit to get the hell outta there!