> Bawlmer has absolutely nothing going for it. It's an urban shithole
> with exorbitant property taxes.  Its school system features illiterate
> teachers; overpaid worthless administrators some of whose chauffeurs
> are paid $100K a year; and students who are dumb, disruptive,
> disinterested, and dangerous.  The pols are socialist crooks who have
> a tax for almost every letter of the alphabet.  Bawlmer always leads
> the nation in STDs and fatal drug ODs.  15%% of the denizens are
> regular drug users.

> And violent crime -- oh Gawd -- don't get me started on crime.
> Consider this.  Bawlmer city with 600,000 people features 300
> murders a year, 99%% of which are committed by black people
> who comprise 2/3 of the city's population.  

> Bawlmer has absolutely nothing going for it. It's an urban shithole
> with exorbitant property taxes.  Its school system features illiterate
> teachers; overpaid worthless administrators some of whose chauffeurs
> are paid $100K a year; and students who are dumb, disruptive,
> disinterested, and dangerous.  The pols are socialist crooks who have
> a tax for almost every letter of the alphabet.  Bawlmer always leads
> the nation in STDs and fatal drug ODs.  15%% of the denizens are
> regular drug users.

> And violent crime -- oh Gawd -- don't get me started on crime.
> Consider this.  Bawlmer city with 600,000 people features 300 murders
> a year, 99%% of which are committed by black people who comprise 2/3 of
> the city's population.  

> Bawlmer has absolutely nothing going for it. It's an urban shithole
> with exorbitant property taxes.  Its school system features illiterate
> teachers; overpaid worthless administrators some of whose chauffeurs
> are paid $100K a year; and students who are dumb, disruptive,
> disinterested, and dangerous.  The pols are socialist crooks who have
> a tax for almost every letter of the alphabet.  Bawlmer always leads
> the nation in STDs and fatal drug ODs.  15%% of the denizens are
> regular drug users.
>
> And violent crime -- oh Gawd -- don't get me started on crime.
> Consider this.  Bawlmer city with 600,000 people features 300 murders
> a year, 99%% of which are committed by black people who comprise 2/3 of
> the city's population.  
>
> In 1960, the city was much more crowded with 940,000 of whom 35%% were
> black.  Don't know how many murders were committed in the city that
> year, but in the entire State (3.2 million) there were 168.  Yep, in
> 1960 a local brewery dubbed this area "The Land Of Pleasant Living"
> and that was a pretty accurate description. ...