Why are Greyhound bus stations almost always in poor, high crime neighborhoods?
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It’s not quite that direct
Greyhound bus stations are only profitable when they are set in the middle of extremely dense inner city neighborhoods where there are buttload of people who can’t afford vehicles but need such transportation
When you have 500 people in two square blocks instead of 10 people in the same area, you have a lot more chance of there being a whole lot of crime. In fact that’s 490 more chances of drug addicts, criminals, sex offenders, whatever. Also because of the extremely condensed space, there’s more people than jobs which means the pay is low. Which makes more crime. Which means people who have money don’t want to live there so they move out and only the people who are desperate move in because there’s nothing else they can afford. And around and around and around it goes
So it’s not that the bus moves into a high crime area. It’s that the buses work where there’s lots of people and crime also tends to happen where there’s a lot of people.
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