It’s become somewhat of a meme now when there is a story on crime, or other bad things happening in a city, people pipe up and say “That’s how it is in blue cities!” “This could only happen in a Democrat city!” However, I noticed they never say “… and that’s why only want to live in X” or “… that would never happen in Y”.
If living in “blue cities” are such a nightmare, where are all these Utopian “red cities” that people are apparently in favor of?
A small town, or a suburb of a city that is described as “a great place to raise a family”. From what I have seen, that usually means one of two things:
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The town/suburb is closer to the city, but is wealthy, real estate is expensive, usually very car-centric, which excludes anyone poor (or even middle class, sometimes).
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The town/village is far away from the nearest city, not necessarily wealthy, but usually ran by a group of people that know each other (good old boys club), probably heavy on religion or other “traditional” values.
universal to all places that claim to be “a great place to raise a family” is that they are quite possibly the worst place to raise children, short of the middle of an active warzone or Fuckass wyoming with 4 hours’ drive to the nearest human being
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