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So a lot of your neighbors have been robbed at gunpoint?

Dorothy called. She wants her brainless straw man back.

I've never been robbed at gunpoint, but that doesn't mean I'm going to Chicago to rock and roll all night.

Never again.

I have been robbed at gunpoint, and it isn't fun.

As such I cannot fault the aged Californians that moved here as a means of preemptively avoiding such a confrontation. 

That is one particular relocation motivation that they and I share in common. 

Dorothy called. She wants her brainless straw man back.

The brainless straw man is the point you made? About something you said happened to you?

OK. Cool. 

No, I clearly said that they moved here so that they wouldn't be robbed at gunpoint. Not that they moved here after they had already been robbed at gunpoint, as was the case with myself specifically.

Can you not read?

I read the words you wrote. That's all. 

Where were you robbed? (This is not to make a point or anything, I'm actually just curious about the story)

Yes. The last time we were downtown, in River North, was very unsettling.

Not here.

How about this one? And this is an alderman.


Alderman says he was attacked by two men outside downtown bar: ‘Out of nowhere this guy ran up on me.’ - Chicago Tribune

Ahhh, I more meant at home. But yeah, out and about in cities.

Leaving dense cities will help there. There's sort of an irony that in all this round and round discussion, there are plenty of parts of Ca. or Illinois that are probably much safer than urban Chicago. State's are just so diverse in their construction. 

Were you actually worried before?

I mean, plenty of Floridians are robbed at gunpoint. Just depends where.

Yeah sure, in the mostly black "hoods" of Miami or Fort Lauderdale. These are mostly small areas far away from Downtown or "monied" suburbs. But this is the same of any major cities in US. Detroit for example is just one giant shithole "hood" where you could get robbed almost anywhere in that cesspool armpit shithole.

South Florida is pretty much safe. There is stupid money in South Florida and an insane amount of police officers. Palm Beach island is probably the richest place anywhere in the country. A tiny little island called Fisher Island in Miami Beach has its own zip code and that zip code is the richest in the US. You can't even get to Fisher Island unless you take a ferry and Palm Beach is like a police colony- they patrol all over 24/7. 

Shithole California has 40%+ higher robbery rate per 100,000 people than Florida by the way... https://www.statista.com/statistics/232564/robbery-rate-in-the-us-by-state/

I dunno. California is losing big companies at a fast rate. Florida is gaining. And so is Texas, even more so.

There are a few high profile large companies that are moving their HQ from Silicon Valley to elsewhere, yes. 

That's their HQ. That doesn't mean they're selling off all their real estate and telling all their CA employees "move to TX or you're out of a job". Those companies will continue to retain large presences in Silicon Valley. 

You know why? Because that's where lots of good workers are, who don't all want to leave.