Looking for input from city dwellers for tonight’s podcast… I work in a smaller metropolitan city in Michigan (100k) and the last two years have been the worst for homelessness, random deaths (drownings, OD, suicide,etc), and petty theft that I’ve noticed in the last 23 years of working there. After talking to several other people in my day to day work, I’m hearing the same. What I’m wondering is, are more people noticing this in their cities also and if so, is it just in democrat run cities like bias legacy media claims or does it matter which statist runs the city? #asknostr
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Happening in mine. I live in a large metro area, and even when the R running the city was in crime, homelessness, panhandling etc. has been increasing
It's nearly always the worst and getting worse in places with a leftist super-majority.
The state it still gonna state even in less bizarre places, but... At least you get better safety and usually less cost of living. All of that is pretty consistently demonstrable.
Eh, more people, more problems. 76% of incorporated areas have less than 5000 people. You likely don’t see the problems in those towns like you do in the cities. Also, I’d probably guess that larger cities are ripe for opportunities for corruption. Small towns have corruption (especially local police or sheriffs), but the opportunity to apply well funded corruption is limited. So limiting available funding to governments seems like a reasonable course of action.
I live in a republican run city and have seen the same. So many homeless camps. 5 years ago there were none. More crime also but it’s not horrible, yet anyway. I had to shew away a homeless guy and his dog sleeping on the sidewalk to my office building a few months ago.
It’s everywhere. It’s the macroeconomics of the present day.
My impression is Dem cities are worse because more favorable to criminals and vagrants, but the problem exists/is getting worse in conservative cities also