If you put a spoonful of wine into a barrel of sewage, you’ve got ... sewage.
If you put a spoonful of sewage into a barrel of wine, you’ve got ... sewage.
Blunt, but to the point.
For years now, those who can afford it have been establishing private neighborhoods, gated communities. They pay a premium to live in cleaner, safer, quieter surroundings. They live behind a wall and a gate - necessary due to the rotting of American society.
Can you blame them? Poverty is not the cause, of course. But it’s highly correlative. Those who suffer most are the good people who are poor and have no escape.
I commute 35 miles each way because my only escape was “further out”. (And even at that, there is one family that upsets the peace of the entire small community, one “spoonful of sewage”.)