[doomleika]

I see people excuses this as "it's part and parcel of living in a big city". No it's not, this is a West only phenomenon. Singapore is safe, The entire Japan is safe, Korea, Taiwan. I deliberately removed mainland China cities to avoid "...but authoritarian..." arguments.

Plenty of government in the world kept their citizen safe and getting murdered walking down the street is never a risk factor to those dewellers and they are way worse GDP and even wealth disparity than US.

[komali2]

The places you mention may have higher actual wealth disparity in some cases, but they have lower economic disparity, because they all at least guarantee healthcare, among other things. Singapore even guarantees housing. The PRC allegedly guarantees all of it, but when I lived there it sure didn't look like it, I saw tons of abject poverty.