Replies to post #536602 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[B402]

Krugman was a staunch free trade advocate... Hopefully those days are over for good

[janice shell]

Though I lived in the Philly suburbs as a child, and now as an old person, I've never lived in the city, or spent much time there. Easy as it is to get to--just a short train ride away--I don't think I've made the trip more than 10 or 15 times in the past 20 years. I'm sure I should have made the effort, if only to see the Mutter Museum, which I've never visited.

I have lived in New York, and, in Italy, in Milan. I like cities. And I think the real problem with people who talk about cities with horror is that they've never lived in one. Many haven't even visited the ones they most like to bitch about. When they do visit, they seem to feel lost and uncomfortable.

I don't get it. Cities are energizing.

[janice shell]

For example, read Krugman's (a NYC resident) repeated rebuttals (in his Substack) of the administration's continuous mischaracterizations of crime in NYC. And those mischaracterizations have been subsequently repeated here (and elsewhere, I assume) by various know-nothing simps.

Yes, I agree. It's what people do. And have always done. My family lived in the greater Chicago area when I was a teen. And when I got to college, I was surprised to realize how many people there apparently thought gangsters were shooting up the streets regularly. The Untouchables was popular at the time, but even so...

People from the country felt the same way about ancient Rome. Though it, like all cities before the invention of gaslight and then electric light, was dangerous after dark if you didn't have an armed escort consisting of at least a few people.