> why would it be easier to be poor in a city? Well, I would assume there's some correlation between population density and having a difficult job market. More

> why would it be easier to be poor in a city? Well, I would assume there's some correlation between population density and having a difficult job market. More people == more competition, and under those conditions the types of jobs that wouldn't require extensive experience/skill/training are naturally gonna be a rare commodity. So of course poverty is gonna be a function of joblessness, but there is also a certain frustration that goes along with the difficulty of finding a job specifically, that seems like it would correlate to crime more neatly than the actual impoverished conditions themselves as well. This is all pure speculation of course. Actual studies on the matter would be much more interesting.