Yes, agreed.
I recently told some visiting relatives to expect to hear five sirens a day - either fire dept. or police - they thought I was exaggerating, until it happened. Every day that the were here (So Cal). One told me I was wrong: They heard more than five a day.
And, I live in an upscale area where the average price of a home around here is $1.5M.
We’ve devolved so much already. Funny how we, as a society, just accept it. I remember the old-timers so confidently state, “That can’t happen in America!”. God says “Oh yea?”.