This is the image of NYC I grew up with.https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082402/ …
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The kids just can’t know what it was like.pic.twitter.com/tIWptnEQG2
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she clearly didn't see NYC in the early 80s or, today's Detroit (or hell, Detroit post-WW2)
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sure, but it's all relative. Lots of young people are suddenly finding that city life can be not so fun when you can't go do a lot of things and crime is spiking
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Anxiety is downstream of, but semi-independent from, reality.
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I mean I knew the city had been much worse but it’s not so vivid to say “Times Square was seedy” or “couldn’t do xyz at night.” weirdest thing is that it happened so quickly - it’s one thing to get born into a city that wanders up & down in quality, but to accidentally be here
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Of course cities are fragile in ways that other places are not, but I thought that rapid breakdown would be limited to relatively unlikely bugout bag type failure but this is so dramatic over short/medium timescale still
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Suddenly Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns has gone from "strange offspring of the '80s" to perfectly relevant.
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I grew up in the NY suburbs. Some weekends we went into the city. Some weekends we played the Escape From NY board game.
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