@Gabe_Kauffman@ppppp1245688@jackgeldhart@devahaz Generally sure, but those SF and NY are outliers.
The former for having way more men than women, plus disproportionately dweebish men with poor social skills.
The latter because it has more women than men and is generally said to be a disproportionately attractive dating pool
@surplustakes@John_L_Ausonius They've had a fraction of the immigration of the rest of the Anglosphere and housing is even less affordable.
It's a 'refusing to build housing' problem.
@alecbowers@mattyglesias If underlying tensions between groups of people are sufficiently bad, there's no possible partition that would alleviate the situation.
You are correct, but there's probably no preferable counterfactual.
@samshistoryjam@theashrb On a net basis, no nation has done more good for the world.
The only other country with an argument for that is a product of Britain.
@ItsAndyRyan@StatisticUrban@wanyeburkett The central reason for the US' high incarceration rate by the standards of developed nations is that is has more people committing crimes