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This strikes me as a very naive sort of romanticism, as someone who grew up in alternately a very safe and very dangerous locale.


What? If you are a socially competent person (say a rapper with > 500k followers) you can go in the most dangerous areas of Lagos and people will maybe beat and shot each other....but to host you for the night...I know this for a fact!

Of course if you are loaded but socially incompetent (say many of the billionaires in Silicon Valley or Wall Street) then your 50B net worth won't be enough for people to restrain themselves from beating you unconscious and taking you Rolex or Phatek Philippe (that your socially incompetent brain decided to sport there even though you are nobody but a walking wallet with no street cred)


You have the most intriguing, Kanye-esque definition of social competence.


Sorry to see you getting downvoted, its an interesting perspective.

That said, even rappers seem to retire to "safer" places then these "lively" options you describe. So something about being safe appeals to many people, not just the socially incompetents'.


But rappers do frequent the most socially volatile areas, albeit in the US.

The US is huge and there are pockets of instability of course, especially in big metro areas such as LA, Chicago , Baltimore and Detroit.

For a socially competent person who lacks the prequalifer of fame though ,they are not that great again due to prices which are US-like


But for example Young Dolph, went back to get some cookies in a tougher area, blown away and killed. Not so good. It's not clear that being socially competent / successful helped him.


So when are you booking your ticket to New Orleans? coldtea and I are waiting. I'll meet you at the airport arrivals.




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