[asdff]

Usually the local news/politics/crime data slants a certain way you could probably guess. E.g. I used to argue with redditors about how they assume the local metro is nothing but homeless people and you will get mugged, citing my years and years of use with no issue and seeing plenty of seemingly sober and straight arrow people on my commute, but no. It goes against the prevailing narrative that everything is irredeemable and shitty. I lost my energy to engage with these people before long, I wish I lost it even sooner.

[StressedDev]

One of the biggest problems with forums, reddit, X (Twitter), etc. is you don’t know which users know what they are talking about. In your case, you knew about the local metro because you used it. People who claimed it was a disaster obviously never used it and yet there was no easy way to determine which person was knowledgable and which person was making things up or repeating what they had read else where.