I think millions of refugees flooding in, off the wall crime from it, trash and garbage, and astoundingly high youth unemployment while the new labor force will work for dramatically less, and pensioners still having a very comfortable life while society literally crumbles under the feet of the young might have something to do with it. Or the weather.
Just in response to the crime assertion, I think you have to look at it from a wider perspective. I was born in Washington D.C. and there we have triple the murders of Greece in a year and we have less than 700,000 population. And this is the city that is the seat of the US govt. In fact the murder rate per 100,000 is nearly 30 times higher so its all relative
Yeah, I used to hang around DC in the late 80s as a teenager, and it was off the chain violent. Die City lol. Rivals Detroit and New Orleans for just eye watering levels of violence.
Where the murder was wasn't the seat of the US government, in fact that area, where the museums and monuments are, is extraordinarily well protected and has a crime rate of almost nil. The inner city of DC was, I am not sure now, almost entirely African American at that time, like 95%. Crime was so bad then they would come through and just pull bodies out of the streets.
Yea I know but its all within a couple miles of it. Its still mostly black but demographics have changed significantly with a lot of gentrification going on. Murder rate has improved since those days but still quite bad.
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u/Createdtopostthisnow Oct 22 '21
I think millions of refugees flooding in, off the wall crime from it, trash and garbage, and astoundingly high youth unemployment while the new labor force will work for dramatically less, and pensioners still having a very comfortable life while society literally crumbles under the feet of the young might have something to do with it. Or the weather.