People who spend 0 time in NYC need to stop pretending to care about "how bad it is lately". You have no idea what you're talking about. It's one of those zombie talking points some people repeat uncritically. Remember "no one wants to work anymore"? Same idea. They say it like a verbal tick, almost. Came up in a conversation earlier today, it wasn't even on topic lol. Conservative verbal diarrhea.
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Same story for basically every city in the US. Atlanta here. There was a slight bump in violent crime, mostly domestic, during COVID. Statistically, it's low as hell these days. The whole "city=scary" thing is from the media knowing that focusing on statistically insignificant crimes sells ads.
If I never hear another suburbanite complain about "Chiraq" or "Crook County," it'll be too soon.
It's especially insane to me as someone who actually lives in NYC. I go out to the Long Island suburbs semi regularly, and just last weekend went to Albany where I used to live to visit some old friends, and both feel like ghost towns in comparison.
NYC has almost entirely recovered from covid but the burbs and small cities never did. So many businesses there have closed and never reopened and people's third spaces have been gutted. The only time I don't feel "safe" out here is on a subway platform with a small army of cops dicking around on their smartphones.
I know some major cities do have issues like this (I genuinely felt unsafe when I visited parts of San Diego last year) but to say this about New York is just completely disconnected from reality.