Re:Citizen CEO offered to personally fund LA arson manhunt f...
by majormajor on Friday May 21, 2021 @02:49PM
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> Someone from SV assumes the whole world is like SV. Water is wet. More news at 11.
> Rampant property crime is basically only a feature of the urban west coast and a maybe handful of cities in the mid-west and east.
> I live in an city most SV techies would sneer at and things don't go missing from my porch or the neighbor's porch.
Ironically, this reads like someone in a well-off neighborhood with no idea what happens in other neighborhoods in their non-SV city.
Everyone "knew" growing up in middle-of-TX town which parts of town you didn't want to park overnight on the street in, or where you didn't want to leave a bike. Even beyond just reputation, you could often tell by the houses - people didn't put chain link around the front yard and bars over the window just for fun.
> Rampant property crime is basically only a feature of the urban west coast and a maybe handful of cities in the mid-west and east.
> I live in an city most SV techies would sneer at and things don't go missing from my porch or the neighbor's porch.
Ironically, this reads like someone in a well-off neighborhood with no idea what happens in other neighborhoods in their non-SV city.
Everyone "knew" growing up in middle-of-TX town which parts of town you didn't want to park overnight on the street in, or where you didn't want to leave a bike. Even beyond just reputation, you could often tell by the houses - people didn't put chain link around the front yard and bars over the window just for fun.