tanaciousp t1_j5mif9t wrote
Reply to comment by districtultra in Hit-and-run crashes hours apart kill woman in South Philadelphia, man riding bike in Kensington by hdhcnsnd
Man, these comments make me feel so fucking done with this city. Things were getting better for so long but from 2019-now things have become just so much worse here. Been here over 10 years and in the last year 3 of my friends have been car jacked. Not to mention the rest of the violence happening all over. I don’t even want to walk my dog past 8 pm anymore. all this is making me think, who wants to live here and deal with this now? Certainly not middle class and above people with the ability to have better choices. This city is driving away the most important taxable group of people.
Look the idea of living in the suburbs makes me equally depressed because it’s homogenous as fuck, and not walkable whatsoever and I’m a city person . but at least the degree of which I worry about being randomly assaulted or violated in some way will go down significantly.
ColdJay64 t1_j5oel92 wrote
Almost like there was an unprecedented global pandemic that had this effect (to varying degrees) on nearly all American cities. For example, over 20 cities set homicide records in 2021.
The question is whether you have the patience and desire to wait for things to hopefully return to normal - of which you of course have no obligation to.
tanaciousp t1_j5ofp2s wrote
Yeah, if it were just me I was worried about I would stay long term. But with small children, it’s a whole different equation.
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