RE: Our cities ARE Third World: Tribes of uneducated, morally bankrupt primitives warring for scare resources in economically depressed, lawless, crumbling, hell-holes.
C’mon, not every city in the USA are as bad as Detroit.
Yeah, but Philadelphia, Cleveland, East Saint Louis, Baltimore and another dozen or so I could name without breaking a sweat, come close.
I don’t know a single city I’d choose to live in.
Grew up outside DC; When I had to professionally, I spent at least a few years each in Memphis, Albuquerque, Cincinnati, San Diego, Nashville; more than brief visits to New York twice, Boston twice,Tucson, San Francisco, Dallas a number of times; a few days or more in Chicago, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Denver, Richmond, Phoenix, Las Vegas, LA. And all those were back when they those cities were a heck of a lot better than I hear they are lately.
Currently live an hour and a half drive from Seattle and avoid it like the plague.
Concerning American cities, I agree with Steve McQueen: “I rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.” I enjoyed London for several months when young, and a number of months in Chengdu back before China modernized. Probably not the same now.