No, my town is not falling apart at all. Has good public schools and a lot of well paying jobs if you have the right skills. The only problem is housing costs are extremely high.
What if I don’t have skills?
Everybody has skills. Yours may just be deplorable, and unfit for polite society.
Similar issues. I am a high income earner trying to live my dream of endless options for outdoor pursuits. Super community oriented but also growing tired of people showing up without a degree, sometimes without a high school diploma, totally out of turn and then, with their hand out demanding sustenance, causing problems within the community at night.
Just the other week, a 34-year old woman passed out in a snowbank, intoxicated by drugs and alcohol, and died over night. Heart wrenching because she was trying to sustain in this mountain paradise. Why was she on drugs and who gave them to her are my questions. I want to know and keep my eye on this person. The cops dont do anything around here. The woman who died represents the hopelessness that those who are degree-less and struggling in dead end jobs go through. Then in that struggle begin to throw their lives away to drugs and alcohol. Then, we also have a ton of petty ex-felons, drugged up and nuisancing the street at night, looking to pick fights (blue collared laborers and service workers). They are so dumb because they dont even know how to fight. All the while, tourism spikes bring its own subset of problems. For instance, today's main streets are a monster truck rally with late college spring breakers and k-12 spring breakers. On foot, people are rude and cut each other off the whole time just as they do in cars. There's just no class or etiquette on foot or on the road. The stop signs are options. The red lights and posted speed limits are recommendations. The worst culprits are the fire protection district, official town worker vehicles, local construction vehicles, meth heads and bad Texans in their 4x4s.