Subject: Re: We're Never Voting' For Him Again
Heh. If you lived in a hard core progressive city, you'd think otherwise.

No, not really. As I noted elsewhere, I lived in Manhattan in the early 90's. Cities have never been, and never will be, crime-free Edens free of problems. To borrow your formulation, the correct amount of crime in any city is zero - but that doesn't mean that any amount of crime more than zero results in an "urban hellscape" (any more than it would result in a "rural hellscape," since those areas have non-zero crime as well). Which is why you can't buy an apartment in these urban areas at 1990's-era prices. Because they're massively successful economic engines with huge demand for living there. Go rent Alphabet City and see whether you'd rather live in mid-1980's East Village in NYC or today's.