Hmm, maybe those who could afford the extreme expense of living there got tired of contending with uncontrolled violent crime and a really (literally) shitty en

Hmm, maybe those who could afford the extreme expense of living there got tired of contending with uncontrolled violent crime and a really (literally) shitty environment? It's not as though people with money have their pick of the entire rest of the planet, the vast majority of which doesn't have those problems. How selfish of somebody to want to live peacefully, not step in shit, and not be endlessly taxed as a penalty for being productive. The only ones seriously asking "What happened" are the ones whose policies made these problems and want to pretend that they aren't problems, or want to evade responsibility for them.