old civility is what you are looking for in a place called home, you can do worse than settle in grovetowngia. she has lived here for 14 years. >> you see the children outside, playing, having a good time. just a nice quiet place that you want to move and take your family to. >> the way we think america used to be, and seems to be, harder and harder to find. >> the army's fort gordon is just down the road. and a number of the city's 12,000 residents are active military serviceman. it can be measured in stolen bicycles. >> a great place to raise a family -- >> here's a veteran investigator for the county. >> what's your crime quite? >> it's not that high. we don't have too much violent crime. >> dozens of homicides a year would you say? >> not at all. we might have one year. >> one year? >> yeah. >> and in march 2009, they did have one, a homicide, a bad one. it sent neighbors shopping for burglar alarms and fresh animal. >> we wondered what's going on, what's happened. >> so many terrible things happened so quickly, so many taboo's broken on any suburban street. >> we were confused. we wer