This is the crux of it. All the fearmongering, all the campaigns against urbanism, against transit, against everything that’s not single family suburban white America. It feels unsafe. It’s not unsafe, it just feels unsafe.
At some point, if your emotions get the better if you, “feels” becomes “is”.
People don’t take transit because it doesn’t feel safe. In reality it’s because they’ve heard “stories” and watched the news that now being just around people doesn’t feel safe. So they say it isn’t safe. Driving feels safer because you’re separated from other people, even though you’re much more likely to die or be maimed in a car accident than anything while riding transit. But it feels safer.
People like being in their suburban communities because it feels safer. Why does it feel safer? Well, if you can buy into a planned neighborhood chances are other people there are pretty similar socio and economically to you. OP talks of tribalism, that’s the perfect form right there. Stepping out of your small area then feels unsafe because there are people who aren’t like you - and so other areas quickly “become” unsafe in your mind.
There are of course dozens of studies and proofs showing that feeling unsafe and actually being unsafe are two completely different things, but it doesn’t move the fear that these people are in. They’re already convinced. Facts aren’t going to matter. It’s why I know OP isn’t arguing here in good faith - it’s been proven already. But cities feel unsafe - so they must be.
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So you’re saying chicago doesn’t have a problem with violence that needs to be addressed?
It should just be accepted as normal?
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https://wondermark.com/c/1062/
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This is the crux of it. All the fearmongering, all the campaigns against urbanism, against transit, against everything that’s not single family suburban white America. It feels unsafe. It’s not unsafe, it just feels unsafe.
At some point, if your emotions get the better if you, “feels” becomes “is”.
People don’t take transit because it doesn’t feel safe. In reality it’s because they’ve heard “stories” and watched the news that now being just around people doesn’t feel safe. So they say it isn’t safe. Driving feels safer because you’re separated from other people, even though you’re much more likely to die or be maimed in a car accident than anything while riding transit. But it feels safer.
People like being in their suburban communities because it feels safer. Why does it feel safer? Well, if you can buy into a planned neighborhood chances are other people there are pretty similar socio and economically to you. OP talks of tribalism, that’s the perfect form right there. Stepping out of your small area then feels unsafe because there are people who aren’t like you - and so other areas quickly “become” unsafe in your mind.
There are of course dozens of studies and proofs showing that feeling unsafe and actually being unsafe are two completely different things, but it doesn’t move the fear that these people are in. They’re already convinced. Facts aren’t going to matter. It’s why I know OP isn’t arguing here in good faith - it’s been proven already. But cities feel unsafe - so they must be.