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Originally Posted by Knight Hospitaller
Yeah. The city strikes me as having a split personality right now. The look of health from so much development, and the look of sickness from quality of life and social issues.
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People too easily forget that big cities like Philly have long been the "dumping ground" for those experiencing things like homelessness, drug addiction and mental health issues, because suburban areas just don't have anywhere
near the same social services infrastructure (and very often, political will) to handle such things.
It's a decades-old and completely unfair imbalance, whereby the vast affluent suburbs don't pull anywhere close to their weight in offering social services. But you'll barely hear anyone acknowledge that reality in many conversations, political debates, or media representations.
All this to say, we have to stop framing these challenges as a "big, poorly-run city" issue. It's an American issue.