The first step to making your city not a crime-ridden violent shithole is to stop treating it like a badge of honor. NYC is like this to some extent, but not n

The first step to making your city not a crime-ridden violent shithole is to stop treating it like a badge of honor. NYC is like this to some extent, but not nearly as extreme as the Bay Area. Reminds of this choice quote from the Onion: "In addition, 3 million New Yorkers reportedly left the city because they realized the phrase "Only in New York" is actually just a defense mechanism used to convince themselves that seeing a naked man take a shit on a park bench is somehow endearing, or part of some shared cultural experience."[1] The Bay Area is much worse in this regard. It's the sort of place where privileged rich people treat objectively terrible, horrible as some sort of rite of passage. There's some kind of sick, perverse pride in living in a 24-hour The Wire episode. [1] http://www.theonion.com/articles/84-million-new-yorkers-suddenly-realize-new-york-c,18003/ http://www.theonion.com/articles/84-million-new-yorkers-sudd...