In my time in St. Paul and Minneapolis, now decades ago, the cities became immediately unsafe (and St. Paul appeared uninhabited), after 5 PM.
Some metro areas like Manhattan and the Chicago Loop were just fine after 5 PM, but haven’t been, since COVID started.
Liberal policies, coupled with lost revenue, due to remote work viability, is allowing liberal enclaves to finally destroy themselves by the mere weight of their insane, counter-productive, policies.
Finally!
Unfortunately, it now limits places I would have gone on vacation, which is the next step in accelerating their downfall.
I expect them to continue toward becoming copies of Detroit and East St. Louis.
“remote work viability”
If you can do your work from home, so can an Asian Indian, for far less money.