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matthewmacleod | 19 days ago

It's a genuinely surprising feeling to live in a place, but see an absolute torrent of malevolent misinformation about it.

The "London has fallen" trope that has been prevalent on social media recently stank of some kind of deliberate manipulation. But increasingly—in part due to stories like this—I wonder if it is actually just all "for the views".

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afavour|19 days ago

For what it's worth living in NYC often feels the same. There are people who live on Long Island - many just an hour or so from the city - who are convinced it's a hellscape here.

Even people with children who live in the city are somehow able to tolerate the cognitive dissonance of hearing their children talk about the lives they lead while also believing the city is crime-ridden and dangerous.

rwmj|19 days ago

Also the US politicians suffering from Khan Derangement Syndrome. He really is one of the most anodyne politicians around, obviously no one is genuinely upset about him.

mhh__|19 days ago

It's definitely being pushed by people looking for views but there is obviously some truth to it when half the businesses around Leicester Square are completely empty frauds.

matthewmacleod|19 days ago

No, there is not “obviously some truth to it”. There are any number of actual problems with London, including but not limited to a lack of enforcement against obvious frauds, and none of which are the related to the topic being discussed.

gorpomon|19 days ago

It's such a bummer to see such blatant manipulation, and even worse to see people buy into it wholesale.

thatfunkymunki|19 days ago

I've lived in Chicago and San Francisco, both places also victims of this type of narrative.

tptacek|18 days ago

I've lived in both places and I think the narrative is a lot more fair, in terms of day-to-day quality of life for, like, the median resident, about San Francisco than it is about Chicago. The narrative about Chicago basically doesn't connect with anybody's experience here unless they live in places like Lawndale or Englewood. San Francisco's problems are broadly shared by every neighborhood.