>Hard to image a tech community "thriving" when basic city services and personal safety are so lacking.
when you're young, your hormones is off the chart, you have several people like you around - you're thriving and you don't need basic city services like police coming to quiet down your party, and "personal safety" is for old, like 30ish - 40ish folks.
Its kinda funny when "personal safety" seems to be equated to having a police force at your beck and call. In my neighborhood growing up it was a mac 11 (or that's what kids wished for…) and some paranoia of everyone… including the police. :P
when you're young, your hormones is off the chart, you have several people like you around - you're thriving and you don't need basic city services like police coming to quiet down your party, and "personal safety" is for old, like 30ish - 40ish folks.