“There is nothing we can do” should be the official slogan of this city. Beyond the daily indifference people show one another, the most disappointing aspect of living here is the flaccid response of all authority when confronted with problems.
This is not about “safety”. That would be a different issue. It's inertia. When solutions clearly exist, the answer is still “there is nothing we can do”.
Yet there are many things that could be done. Instead, here comes the apathetic, collective shrug, the resignation to the idea that “things are the way they are and always will be”. Responsibility dissolves into indifference. How convenient.
At what point does “nothing can be done” will declare itself as a choice, losing its mask of limitation?
How many small failures accumulate before apathy becomes the defining culture of a place?
What exactly remains of the idea of a city, then?