Part of it's probably the fact that you live in it, and you haven't been rolled, kiled or laid off. You feel safe because you've been safe... other than your nephew getting rolled, things have been pretty mellow.
We must also acknowledge the fact that statistics are bullshit and easily manipulated. There's a wealthy county in Kansas that has no STDs. None. Never reported one to the Kansas board of health... because they don't have an STD clinic and send people with STDs to the WT county to the east. Not saying that Osaka's particularly ghetto (although I do recall hearing a reference to "All my niggaz in the Sock, bangin' and slangin'" in a song a while back), but your municipality may not be cooing the books as much as some.
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Date: 2008-05-26 03:57 pm (UTC)We must also acknowledge the fact that statistics are bullshit and easily manipulated. There's a wealthy county in Kansas that has no STDs. None. Never reported one to the Kansas board of health... because they don't have an STD clinic and send people with STDs to the WT county to the east. Not saying that Osaka's particularly ghetto (although I do recall hearing a reference to "All my niggaz in the Sock, bangin' and slangin'" in a song a while back), but your municipality may not be cooing the books as much as some.