Marc Andreessen says he’s for new housing, but records tell a different story

Re:Marc Andreessen says he’s for new housing, but records te... by busterarm on Friday August 05, 2022 @06:46AM (#32354224)

I grew up in NYC with these dense mixed-income neighborhoods you speak of.

It just means all classes share the same problems equally (emphasis on equally)

The history of my youth in the city is knowing practically a trail of dead friends lost to drugs, abuse, murder and suicide. And I went to private school.

When I was in middle school some kids I knew at the school behind mine made national news for murdering a guy in Central Park. During the OJ Trial.

IMO anyone who raises a kid in an environment like I grew up in is insanely wreckless.

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Re:Marc Andreessen says he’s for new housing, but records te... by m_ke on Friday August 05, 2022 @10:34AM (#32356659)

NY has one of the lowest suicide rates in the country (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/suicide-mortality/... / https://khn.org/news/among-u-s-states-new-yorks-suicide-rate...), is on the lower side for homicides (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/homicide_mortality...) (5.5 for NYC).

Same goes for drug overdose rates (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/drug_poisoning_mor...), for which the state wide rate is skewed by more rural northern parts.

I spent a large part of my time in the more dangerous areas of NY (Jamaica, Bushwick in early 2000s, Harlem) and never felt really unsafe.

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Re:Marc Andreessen says he’s for new housing, but records te... by busterarm on Saturday August 06, 2022 @05:06AM (#32366351)

I didn't say that NYC is unsafe. Most of NYC is rich neighborhoods, comparatively.

I was specifically referring to those described dense mixed-income neighborhoods where every classes's tragedies end up being spread equally. If you have means ans you raise your children in one of these environments, you're stupid.

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