It’s amazing with all that wealth around there that East Palo Alto still remains a thug ridden dump.
Yep. Always has been. A fully subsidized dump.
Not the least bit amazing. When I visit around there and in SoCal, I see wealth and poverty side-by-side like some other countries I have been to. It's the inevitable result of anarcho-tyranny. Only lower class and super-elite remain, no more ordinary middle class. The thugs are not prosecuted. The dwindling middle class is either working 80 hours or stoned.