Quarantining In A Big City Vs Small Town
Big city: fear of increased crime
There is some fear in the big cities that the shortage of jobs, the fear around certain food shortages, and the struggle to pay rent could increase crime. When people get desperate, in a city where almost nobody knows anybody’s name or face, people worry what some might do. To give you some idea of how nervous people are about crime in the big city: before leaving our large city, my partner passed by a gun store that’s typically empty, and there was a line around the block to get in.