Reminds me of a joke Prince made once that went something like "I like the cold weather, it keeps the bad people away". I believe there's some merit to that similar to what you mentioned. I'd imagine that generally places that face more adversity ward away people who are looking for an easy life. Probably there are exceptions to the rule, but that quote just came to mind.
There's a reason it's the temperate West Coast that's absolutely overrun with homeless nutcases, they can't tough it out in a Buffalo or a Detroit where it's 25 degrees out today.... the later of which doesn't have a fraction of the problem despite being
functionally abandoned as a city.
But, that's why they infest the subways..... free heat and shelter.
A lot of the issues that we experience now are due to progressive/ liberal moral grandstanding. The whole issue with the crazies on the street was not mainly due to Reagan but the ACLU and it's court cases finding that mentally ill persons can reject treatment unless they are a severe danger to society or themselves.
People complain about Reagan and his cut in funding to mental health systems but them you see they are posting in Democratic supermajority states like California or NY. Even the local area is heavily democratic such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, or NYC.
Case in point was Jordan Neely, he just walked out of a treatment center and was not arrested. I'm not going to cheerlead for Republicans but I think that Democrats are at least as complicit in turning areas into shit.
It also assumes that asylums worked.
They didn't.
Almost every seriel / spree / exceptionally violent killer in the 70's and early 80's spent time in a state hospital and either left on their own, unable to be held, or faked a cure well enough the psychiatrists said he wasn't a danger any longer.
I have, shall we say,
extreme skepticism for the entire field of mental health insofar as it can do anything to help at anywhere near a rate that justifies its expenditures.
The only thing they were good for was just a parallel incarceration system.
And that just invited abuse as people didn't really want to look too hard inside of them.
We don't need the asylums back, we just need larger insane wings in the regular prisons and we'll see some results.
He also got mad over a warning that a handicap accessible bus stop may not be available after a snowstorm
And that just means temporarily, I'm sure it'll be cleaned up in due time, but, he's the exact kind of person who abuses the "report bad winter road conditions" function on the DOT's website in my state, who have a permanent warning up that says "DO NOT USE THIS REPORT FUNCTION UNTIL STORM IS OVER" because people only see the road outside their window has snow on it, DURING a storm, and don't understand that the truck plowing it has 80 lane-miles to do in addition to that one and can't be everywhere at once.