I agree with staying away - I know I do. I’m lucky enough to live where I don’t see these people. It’s still shocking to me that there is a whole culture built on wanting to be the scum of society.
Rode the BART from San Francisco into Oakland recently and watched the kids as they participated in that culture - they had to “represent” or be run over by their peers. I actually felt some sympathy for them because they are stuck in a grimy cycle and most of them know nothing else.
Unfortunately, I am not. Beer cans, liquor bottles, etc. all over the place. Pills in baggies on my front lawn. One pregnant teenager after another, loaded with tats, waltzing by.
I hate it.