Over a decade ago when my oldest son was 10 we visited Boston. At the end of the afternoon we were sitting on a bench at some marketplace somewhere and he said to me, “The smell of cities makes me sick and gives me a headache. Can we go now?”
Sometimes I pity people who have to live in the parasite nests (”cities”) but then I remember what they elect and how they vote and I just want them to stay there, sitting crosslegged in their own urine and feces. Please, just stay there where you belong.
Not everybody that lives in a large city is bad. Heck, I live in one of the worst ones in the nation and I didn’t turn out so bad.