I’ve watched videos of various urban neighborhoods around the US. It’s not pretty. But seeing those videos of the area around the tracks and the neighborhoods they are in, I suddenly saw it clearly. Those are pictures and videos of a third world nation. I don’t care where it is on the planet.
Fortunately, I see the US as 50 different countries, so I’m talking about the countries where the videos were shot.
I left la/oc because of these problems, now live in one of the red parts of calif.