https://www.reddit.com/r/Calgary/comments/k7x909/moving_from_vancouver/
Vancouver is driving us insane - the traffic, busyness (3 ski resorts sold out this weekend, parking lots to nature full), petty crime, coldness, unfriendlyness from people and $2k rent for 1 bedroom. We don't seem to fit in here and peoples attitudes reflect that. We don't want this rat race. (...)
Our concerns are mainly focused on the current Alberta government. We don't align with their healthcare, social security or conservation beliefs. The worry is the future of Alberta beyond the next election. It seems majority of this subreddit has the same sentiment.
Australian couple moving from BC to AB is afraid of conservative policies. Like Californians moving to Texas, they'll keep voting for the same trash that created the problems they're running away from.
You don't understand human nature if you think poverty doesn't have an impact on crime. There is a certain percentage of the human population that are psychopaths. Psychopaths who are wealthy tend to become CEOs. Psychopaths who are poor tend to become criminals. The more poor people you have in society, the more poor psychopaths you are going to have, the more homicide, assault, crime, etc. you'll see in society. Psychopaths do not give a flying fuck about the N.A.P or whatever your moral system is. Psychopaths who are not poor are generally not going to victimize you because they don't want to go to jail. But psychopaths who have nothing to lose, they don't give a fuck. They will whack you over the head with a lead pipe in a parking lot just to take your wallet. They don't give any fucks. You are privileged by the fact that you haven't been culturally enriched yet by a criminal. Most right-libertarians are suburban cucks who talk a lot of shit on the internet and have never had to fear for their life even once because they live in nice neighbourhoods away from the poverty. If Canada had inequality to the level of a El Salvador, which has the highest homicide rate in the world, you'd be far more likely to be made a victim. And then you'd think twice about whether inequality is good for society or not. All that hard work you pride yourself on won't mean jack shit when you get whacked over the head with a lead pipe and have permanent brain damage for life.
You're also delusional if you think that most poor people can pull themselves out of poverty when our politicians routinely outsource jobs abroad and prop up the housing bubble. I would love to see you talk about how you are so much better than the poors when you get punched and soccer kicked in the face by a low-inhibition criminal and permanently brain damaged for life. Right-libertarians talk a lot of shit online but they'd be the first to squeal like a bitch and beg for their life when punched in the face by a low-inhibition thug in RL.
I'm a left-libertarian not for moral reasons. But because I'd feel a lot safer in a low inequality society than in a high inequality society like Jamaica where poor psychopaths who have nothing to lose wouldn't hesitate to stab you for your wallet. And if you think it's just a race thing, you clearly have never been to Eastern Europe where there are a lot of low-inhibition criminal thugs just dying to culturally enrich you.
This would be the result if most right-libertarians got into a fight with a thug in RL: https://www.tmz.com/2020/09/09/trump-supporter-knocked-out-blm-protest-massachusetts/ Once Tyrone claps that chin, all your "achievements" in life won't mean anything.