Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "NYC is Destroying Central Park… On Purpose" video.

@johnbnyc64 There's a lot of commercial property losing money. Some of it is just techno-cultural. Why go into the city when UPS will bring it right to your door? Why go into the city or pay city rates for housing, when you can do the same work from 100 miles or 1000 miles away? Not everyone can do it, but everyone who can probably has a hankering to. But let's not kid ourselves about crime, either. But you are 100% correct that you can spend all day and night watching horrific stories and lose sight of the fact that they're all one-in-a-million or one-in-250,000 occurrences, and most people don't witness any of it. Where you're kind of off base is in explaining away the tent cities, the filth, and yes, the crime. Crime is up. Mayor Adams put National Guard in the subways. This isn't "business as usual." This is a civic structure that's crumbling. Democrats have had their run. It's time for something different. Short term, that appears to be Republican, but long term, I wish it were a lot more libertarian.
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@johnbnyc64 Sounds like an honest take from someone who lives there. I agree that it doesn't take a very high percentage of insanity to fill up your feed with nothing but insanity, if that's what your focus is. I do think that the "traditional" way of looking at cities is slowly passing away. The civilizations that have been the most successful at building and maintaining huge metro areas did so at great cost to the liberty (legally and culturally) of their people. It takes an enormous amount of conformity and self-control to cram all those human beings into one place. This is oddly inconsistent with a nation of free people. But I'm very biased. I hated apartment living. Some people LOVE it. I hated not having a yard. I hated being cut off from Nature. Strangely, I didn't even KNOW I hated these things until I was free of them! I didn't realize how much of a weight I was carrying until the weight was lifted. It wasn't the noise or anything like that. In my case, it was always worrying about making noise, myself! I didn't realize how restricted I was until I was free of it.
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