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EU perspective: Gas is high and cars are expensive. Cities are full of drug addicts, homeless people, and empty shops. And crime. I don’t even like going downt

EU perspective: Gas is high and cars are expensive. Cities are full of drug addicts, homeless people, and empty shops. And crime. I don’t even like going downtown for leisure. House prices and rents have rocketed so people who moved the last 2 years to upsize have done so even further from the office. Not to mention presenteeism spreading viruses. Not to mention awful noisy offices designed by sadists. It’s far more complicated than just the “commute”.

99_00 4y ago
>Cities are full of drug addicts, homeless people, and empty shops. And crime. I don’t even like going downtown for leisure. Was it always like this or has this gotten worse because of the pandemic?
wolverine876 4y ago
> Cities are full of drug addicts, homeless people, and empty shops. And crime. I don’t even like going downtown for leisure. That doesn't at all describe the cities I've seen post-pandemic. Cities are full of restaurants, arts, people, and energy. I don't see many empty shops, though more than usual (I assume businesses went bankrupt at higher rate during the pandemic). It does describe the beliefs of people who listen to reactionary commentary but don't go to cities, or believe the talk shows rather than simply looking around them. There are people who are homeless or addicted to drugs, but they have no impact on me and never have. Try just talking to someone - they are just people, not monsters, no different than the other people I meet except in their clothes.
- switch007 4y ago
  > It does describe the beliefs of people who listen to reactionary commentary but don't go to cities, or believe the talk shows rather than simply looking around them. Anyone with a different experience or opinion is ignorant. Got ya. I’ve done plenty of travel recently to plenty of cities, in various countries.

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EU perspective: Gas is high and cars are expensive. Cities are full of drug addicts, homeless people, and empty shops. And crime. I don’t even like going downt

by switch007 4y ago

99_00 4y ago
>Cities are full of drug addicts, homeless people, and empty shops. And crime. I don’t even like going downtown for leisure. Was it always like this or has this gotten worse because of the pandemic?
wolverine876 4y ago
> Cities are full of drug addicts, homeless people, and empty shops. And crime. I don’t even like going downtown for leisure. That doesn't at all describe the cities I've seen post-pandemic. Cities are full of restaurants, arts, people, and energy. I don't see many empty shops, though more than usual (I assume businesses went bankrupt at higher rate during the pandemic). It does describe the beliefs of people who listen to reactionary commentary but don't go to cities, or believe the talk shows rather than simply looking around them. There are people who are homeless or addicted to drugs, but they have no impact on me and never have. Try just talking to someone - they are just people, not monsters, no different than the other people I meet except in their clothes.
- switch007 4y ago
  > It does describe the beliefs of people who listen to reactionary commentary but don't go to cities, or believe the talk shows rather than simply looking around them. Anyone with a different experience or opinion is ignorant. Got ya. I’ve done plenty of travel recently to plenty of cities, in various countries.