[quote=FlyerInHi]Spdrun, one big issue with big cities is that they attract bad immigrants from bad rural areas and third tier cities. Big cities should not bear the burden of being overrun by drug addicts and homeless who come from other parts of the country. We want people with degrees, jobs and money, not people who fall into drugs and homelessness.[/quote]
Most of the big-city drug addicts are locally grown. You need free time, nothing to do, easy local support by begging to build an addict + parents not teaching their children responsibility(parents enabling). Supply of illicit drugs is also much greater in big city areas. Rural drug abuse is more along the lines of depression, poor local job prospects and — absentee parents.
The high cost of big city housing is also a contributing factor to homelessness. Rural houses are much cheaper.
Look at age of onset of use, Employment (big city has larger number of ‘not-in-labor-force’), more big city types have ‘no primary income’. There is also a large race disparity on use between rural and urban – which tends to indicate that drug users are not migrating to the city else the race mix would be the same between rural and urban. Rural drug abuse also shows larger periods of non-use for at least a month.
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