Why is New York becoming so miserable?

[Anonymous]

What’s wrong with the place?

[WhiteSteve]

I was unaware it was on decline. I go fairly frequently, seems like the same old New York to me. Never had a bad time there. Same goes for Los Angeles, great time, every time. I see crazy shit sometimes, but that’s par for the course in any enormous city. Millions of people, thousands of them will be nuts. That’s not because of the city or who the mayor is, that’s just what cities are and always have been. People try to trash them for political narrative creation, but the reality is they aren’t the hellholes they’re painted to be.

My city is a like a tenth of the size, but we have our share of crazy shit, just less but still the same rate relative to the population. If you’re scared of city shit, don’t go into cities, stay in your suburb or little country town.

If anything, the cities are so much more gentrified now, which is a shame in a lot of senses, but it’s super expensive condos now. I grew up nearby South Boston, aka “Southie” if you’ve seen any of the 90s/00s Boston crime movies. That place just isn’t the same anymore. It’s all young finance bros/chicks whose parents bought them a condo in a renovated triple-decker.

I saw a dude there this summer, likely a transplant for work, walking down L Street, right in the thick of Southie, with a New York Yankees cap on. And I all I could think was “in my day in the 90s, that kid wouldn’t wouldn’t have made it to the end of the block without getting a bottle broken over his head.”

We still have some tough neighborhoods, but I mean, what even is “a tough neighborhood.” I routinely get money from an ATM, unprotected on the street and not in a kiosk, in one of the neighborhoods suburbanites talk worst about, late night, and white as fuck, lmao, which some of those suburbanites would say makes me a target. It’s always fine. People walk by, no one robs me.

You just can’t believe the hype about this stuff. Most “violence” in cities is either gang-on-gang or two drunk idiots fighting outside of a bar in one of the entertainment districts. This idea that you take your life in your hands venturing into a city is so silly to me. I spent most of my childhood in the city. Mind your business and usually you can stay out of trouble.

[lightbulb27]

What do you mean?

They threw out God... which is erased from their schools.

The immigrated every culture on the planet and in the process... ruined the one that was there... which has left and gone elsewhere.

Lack of appraoches to deal with the emotional depravity that it generates.

School systems decline as teachers unable to instill heart and soul into the new kids.

Big business leaving... due to business costs...

crime due to so many mentally ill and sanctuary, repeating offenders released.

it's dirty...

[Kelley1]

Too many people and too many insane democrats.

[exitseven]

This is a song from long ago that shows the more things change the more they stay the same

https://www.youtube.com/embed/7oDCnoRG15w

I never felt so lonely and so helpless.

Wishing that I didn't know the truth.

That they tell me that a friend is dying,

And there's nothing in the world that I can do.

[Texaskid1]

I have not been to NYC in years. I hated it then and I think I would still hate it now.

Too many assholes. '

Too expensive

Too many rats every where

Garbage all over the streets.

Also, NYPD is corrupt and violent and I am not one for cops.

[RoronoaZoro8]

No Spiderman to protect it

[ArnieC]

Liberal leaders.

[red-lipstick-girl]

What happened to New York?

[Anonymous]

It's always been miserable. Just noticing?

[hotman5]

ask kamala harris why

[BarryLiverstone]

Seems like an odd question to ask her. She doesn’t live in the state of ny