Kepler
Cornell Big Red
Telling me to move is something liberal elites say to make themselves feel better.
No, MissT. Nobody's "telling" you to move; nobody on the Left or even in the mouse-urine-stained Liberal Center is enacting a great conspiracy against oppressed people.
The suggestion is that rather than beating your head against the wall of having the worst people on the planet as your neighbors, there are far better places, with far better people, to live. And it's not a matter of moving to the East Village or the Tenderloin and paying $6k a month for a closet. Essentially, any urban place in any state is better than any rural location in the US which isn't dominated by a college. An urban location in the reddest state will have better people and a more healthy place for a worthwhile and happy life among humans than a rural place in the bluest.
It's not a matter of being an ally. It's a matter of making an objective judgment about who lives where. Palookaville sucks. It may have been not as bad once, but in the last fifty years it's turned itself into Mordor, by choice. That isn't where the fight is happening -- the fight already happened there, and the good guys lost.