What motivated you to work there?

After visiting there for a school trip years ago it seemed like a remnant of industrial revolution time. The criminal aspect was doubly disconcerting.

There seem to be a lot of middle-America places that are falling by the wayside because of the functional-person drain. It's not even a brain-drain of white collar people, it's pretty much everyone who wants to live a non-"watch out for your life" lifestyle, which is, everyone?