I was in DC right before this fiasco, and I kid you not I spent the whole time thinking how nice and clean the city was, figuratively and literally. What are y

I was in DC right before this fiasco, and I kid you not I spent the whole time thinking how nice and clean the city was, figuratively and literally. What are you comparing DC to? Obviously not the actual statistics, but anecdotally what are you anchoring to? The city is more than fine. All of the southern "conservative cities" I've lived in (since this is how you're framing it) had same-ish to significantly worse stats and were generally sketchier. Go walk around Houston, or New Orleans, or Midwest areas with opiate blight, of visit the nearby cities like Baltimore and tell me that DC has a problem. What planet are you living on if you think DC is in the bottom half of America. You must live a very privileged life to think that.