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Is it just me or do poor neighborhoods of the US have a safer vibe now and the suburbs like a distinctly threatening vibe? I live in a poor neighborhood and these days being somewhere like this and seeing like a gangbanger-ish car roll down the street doesn't make me nervous but a cop car definitely does kind of like how those same types of gangbanger-ish cars made me nervous when I was a middle class kid growing up in a nice neighborhood in the 2000s but police cars made me feel safe and protected. Like it's all switched for me. A few days ago I stayed a few nights at my dad's huge house in nice neighborhood and I was alone one night and felt extremely unsafe. I was so relieved to get back to my apartment alone in a poor neighborhood. Has anyone else had this experience of such a transition over the last twenty years or so?

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[-] SoylentBlake@lemm.ee 7 points 8 months ago

That's something people should consciously be aware of because with the system as fucked as it is now, we are all guaranteed to end up poor.

Assume you save up 5mil for retirement. You fall and break yr hip. Insurance covers 80%. How much of that 5mil you gonna have left?

Answer; by the time we get there inflation will have fucked all the value of the dollar. You'll be selling you house to pay that bill, after emptying your bank account, cuz Medicaid doesn't help until you've liquidated all your assets.

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