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The first half is very much my experience … the only crime in the area was petty stuff from idiot kids who didn’t know any better, and they were usually sorted out efficiently.
I didn’t bother locking my car for 10 years, lol
In my childhood, from 5 to 15, o used to live in one of the most degraded part of my city (1mln people, southern Europe). Drug dealing and sex workers where common and widespread s well as clients. Maybe no actual “cartels” tbh.
Well, the area was very safe and in control, actually the drug dealers kept the situation under control because they didn’t want police to mess around.
Years later the area was cleared out and and started to become the Hotpoint of night life (pubs, cheap alcohol holes and such) and people flocked from every other part of town from 23:00 to 5:00. That’s when it started being unlivable because you would fine your car hit or pissed on, high music and loud voices all night long and drunk people around, broken glasses and bottles in the morning…
So, I missed the dealers. And I moved after a few years of that hell. (The night time life, I mean)
Edit: the fun part? The middle class people who called for removing the drugs and sex, people living in the area I mean, started moving out after the night love started. And house value fell (wasnt too high to begin with, ok) because the only kind of business you can start afterward in the area where pubs and cheap alcohol places and sleeping at night was not an option anymore.
Yeah, I’ve lived in some grade-A shitholes. Very livable, as long as you don’t mind what the lift smells like :-)
We need a term for this.
Pimptrification?
“like in Chicago”
bruh
