they are just performatively shitting their pants about cities to demonstrate to each other how much they hate minorities

In my experience cities are way more dangerous because of dumbest car drivers constantly running red lights and almost hitting pedestrians. It felt terrible walking everywhere and trying to dodge cars, and I avoided riding a bicycle there as they frequently put bike lanes between car lanes and I had other bikers warn me about them having highest bicycle fatality rates in the country that year.

Cities where I live are just a scheme to get as many poor people ran over by giant confederate-flag waving trucks as possible

conservatives stop being giant pussies challenge (impossible)

This post is clearly written by a city slicker

Even people that live in cities start to believe the same shit. I've lived just about my entire life in a big city. Can't say I haven't seen anything, but certainly not at the rate that suburbanites and rural people seem to think it is. Its like they really think that you'll see 3 murders and 10 muggings in the span of 3 city blocks.

My city has serious issues, but I also recognize racist Republican policies that have deliberately hamstrung it while diverting all its generated tax revenue to the suburbs. Dems tend to do slightly more than the bare minimum around here, so it's why I sometimes leave them out on criticism on local politics.

I live in a city and routinely leave my door unlocked, I've never felt even remotely unsafe- I go visit someones house in the suburbs and they've got cameras on their door, deadbolt locks, and a security system.

I'm more likely to die getting run over by a car than by a home invasion

I've lived in a big city for years now. Never seen anybody get mugged, or shot, or carjacked, despite doing activist work that often has me visiting poor minority neighborhoods.

But any time I visit the small town where I grew up there's always someone or another acting like I came back from a fucking warzone lmao

I used to do the same in San Francisco before Covid, and I would constantly hear supposed "war stories" about the city that came straight from right wing rags and social media. Don't even get me started on the amount of San Francisco Copapologa mansplained (or womansplained sometimes) to me over so many years.

I guess it depends on where you live. I'd choose my small rural town over Guatemala City any day. That place is a hellhole that most everybody living there wants to leave.

Chicago's alright. The hot dogs could be described as a warzone, but I like them for it.