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I trust the reports, and I trust the data, but the trend has been pretty obvious, I'd wager, and predictable for some time now. People in the suburbs increasingly migrate to cul-de-sac communities, which isolate them from the rest of the world, to make them feel safer, depriving their children of the much-needed contact with a diverse population that builds trust. Beyond that, the news is more and more pervasive, and…
You seem to suggest those poor, sheltered suburbanites are al wrong. So should I have believed the guy at the bus stop when he told me he would sell a Rolex for $100 or the nice man at the gas station that asked for money for gas in his car with a long story, though he had no car in sight? It's nice and hip to just imply people are not worldly but it may be that their distrust is justified. You said some nice things…
My thought is that a healthy distrust is perhaps the way to go, but that's a judgement on values, and shouldn't be relied upon as advice.