The city was not designed for pedestrians. You can’t take walks alone or with your pets. The city has no public transportation system. It’s a city for politicians to stay away from the rubbish they have going on in the other 36 states.
You are watching a country decline slowly, no academic rigor, cognitive atrophy in full display.
This dovetails into a general lack of ability to enforce excellence that finds its way into communal and work spaces.
This is one of the reasons why I’m so hyper independent, I don’t want anyone to ever feel like they can make me feel small in this way all bc “they helped me”