> cops and 'community orgs' dedicated to keeping certain people in their place
Come now, that's as exaggerated as saying coastal states have no law enforcement anymore and have taxpayer-funded abortion factories. If there is such a thing as drinking Fox News koolaid, what you're saying is the MSNBC equivalent.
Do you spend a lot of time in the South? I live in a Deep South state as an immigrant and visible ethnic minority. People of different races get along very well here. I used to live in a major coastal metropolis that had BLM signs on every other lawn but effectively zero black people actually living in those neighborhoods. Here? Effectively zero BLM signs, but black and white and other races rubbing shoulders as neighbors every day.
For the past few decades, if you asked black professional athletes what city they were most likely to face overt racism in, it was Boston, not a Southern city.
https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/san-antonio-...
https://nypost.com/2022/02/01/dashcam-shows-florida-man-open...
Your two anecdotes, by the way, show no evidence that the people involved were of different races.
Not to say there aren’t great places to live in the rest of the US. Aside from the sometimes idiotic politics at the statehouse I’ve been fine living in Ohio, for example.
Car accident risk exists in both places, the stabbing risk is higher in some.
Not saying that we should not try to mitigate and and reduce them.
Shootings, stabbings and muggings are things that require intention.
Unless he accidentally fell on the knife 37 times...
In terms of probability of getting hurt, car crashes dwarf being stabbed so a flight to safety that requires more driving is almost surely increasing your odds of being harmed. Likely the numbers are underreported as well. But headlines get attention. Family of four t-boned in an intersection by a drunk driver just doesn't get the clicks that CTO stabbed in San Francisco does.
Not to say there aren't problems, of course.
I also really enjoyed learning about all the little places, and it's a bonafide research rabbit hole if that's your sort of thing: weather, taxes, sports, politics, culture, economy, transport, food, history, lifestyle, geography. There's such variety and distinctness! I mean, you can cut the pie anyway you like and I bet there's somewhere in the US to suit you.
These folks aren’t all dead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WErjPmFulQ0
Source: I lived there from 2016 until last year and I still have a house there.
I moved out of state late last year.
I do love the burbs of Forsyth county though.
People moving into Forsyth over the last decade are transplants from up north and other parts of Atlanta are part of the “professional class” as the population has grown. They are the “college educated white suburban” group that have completely different attitudes than the people who have been in Forsyth forever.
Overland Park, KS
Minneapolis, MN
Colorado Springs, CO
Plano/McKinney/North Dallas, TX
Asheville, NC
Cincinnati, OH
Cleveland, OH
Bellingham, WA
SF is a pretty nice place, but you have to avoid tenderloin and soma.
But even with such nutcases, who you can safely ignore, because they’re just out of their heads clearly, I really like LA.
I find the street people in LA are not as dirty or aggressive as the worst street people in San Francisco. It’s like a Street people in LA still see you is kind of kin. But the street people in San Francisco: you guys are on two sides of divide like you’re from different worlds.
I remember Street people from both cities but I can’t remember like the specific places. I just recall that during the day, San Francisco is a lot worse than LA. More street people more aggressive, more dirty.
This was pre-pandemic, though, so maybe things have changed a lot. Hopefully for the better in all aspects!