In Milwaukee the sky is fucking green from all the smog and shit. When went there it was hard to breathe. I couldnt imagine going to New York.
In Milwaukee the sky is fucking green from all the smog and shit. When went there it was hard to breathe. I couldnt imagine going to New York.
How does anyone afford to live in them, is the bigger question, I think.
Poverty is worse in rural parts of the country tho isn’t it? Jobs pay shittier + there’s less openings
I cant afford to live in the countryside or the city
I've never really seen a good break down of it. I've seen some studies for my home state that say it's worse in the rural parts where I live. I think this study was particularly talking about perception of taxes. Basically saying southern Illinois gets a disproportionate amount of tax funded assistance as opposed to the city, and I believe it was for things mostly like Medicaid, etc. Assistance for the poor. Stating that per capita there was more poverty in the southern part.
However, this was a county by county analysis, and I'm not really sure that's the best way to go about it. I always assumed that people of color were more concentrated in the city (at least here), and are disproportionately affected by poverty, but that kind of gets glossed over due to greater wealth disparity in the city. Chicago has actual rich people, my county doesn't have people that rich.
Idk, just never really seemed like a good way to analyze poverty to me, at least how I've seen it.
If you live in a city with good transit you can save a lot without owning a car, few and far between in the US though. Thankfully it's getting better, especially in regards to personal transit like bikes!