We should be aware that the crime is relative to the culture of the community.

That was a culture shock when my wife and I first moved here and went looking for a place to live.

But if a year or two in you're still doing that, then you need to work on better ways to do business.This website, podcast, and lots of other similar stuff you're likely reading romanticize hustle culture.

They also live there because they like the culture, climate, amenities, and other aspects that are difficult to measure.

I want to be able to travel, inbed myself in some foreign cultures... a deeper look than tourism. 

. - Landlord friendly state- rental culture amongst residents - super low rental inventory. 

East coast simply are too rigid, their Corp culture are too bureaucratic and simply can not compete with CA small startups on innovation, despite their huge R&D spending.

I dislike a lot of cultural norms of this country, the one I hold in deepest contempt is complacency, followed closely by ignorance and the general cheapness and selfishness that consumerism has bred into us.  

Due to this grant experiment and our culture, financial systems, rule of law, ect, we have trained vast swaths of our population to think that it is ok to dare greatly, to take risks, and bold strike out on their own with less fear of failure, societal stigma, exclusion from job markets than in most other places and most other time periods.

The culture and cachet you pay for...Right now NYC provides zero.