Neighborhoods unable to adequately satisfy perceived resident needs are susceptible to the migration of their inhabitants to areas that better address their needs. Using the American Housing Survey, the authors examine neighborhood satisfaction and its relationship to perceptions of residents living in both gated and nongated fee-based neighborhoods. The findings indicate that respondent age and the lack of knowledge of crime have the largest positive impact on how the residents rated their neighborhoods. While chronological age may have myriad possible influential factors, the simple knowledge by residents of neighborhood crime has implications for crime prevention and community awareness efforts. NEIGHBORHOODS AND FEE-BASED COMMUNITIESNeighborhoods represent a critical component of daily urban and rural life. Neighborhoods unable to adequately satisfy the perceived needs of its residents are susceptible to the migration of their inhabitants to neighborhoods either within the municipal boundaries or outside the central city that better address their perceived or required needs. Certain types of neighborhoods may be perceived as having advantages to current and potential residents; gated or restricted communities can possibly offer this professed need.Although part of the examination is based on prior research, this article's contribution for urban neighborhood planning, policy, and research is the analysis of the neighborhood satisfaction determinants in fee-based 769

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This paper reviews some of the past decade's studies of producer or intermediate-services exports from local regions. After a discussion of conceptual and methodological problems and inconsistencies, we present these studies according to the three basic methodologies: surveys, location quotients, and input-output. Overall, our sense is that these studies support limited but important conclusions: (1) If intermediate services are defined broadly, certain of these activities have as their major function interregional or international transfer or trade. By nature, these distributive services have widespread clients, and benefit from locations with substantial physical and communications infrastructure. (2) Among most businessand financial-service activities, most offices are established to serve a local region, but may derive some revenues from beyond this expected zone. (3) The exceptions -the activities and establishments that derive much of their revenue beyond such "normal" zones-are particularly specialized, particularly large, or parts of multiregional enterprises. (4) Such firms tend to locate in larger or more specialized urban places, probably because of the labor force, the corporate connections, and the rapid dissemination of ideas, contacts, and information within and among the largest metropolitan areas. These conclusions lead to some general policy recommendations.