“My once great birth city has been taken over by socialists/communists...”
...welcome to the party. My once great birth city is Minneapolis, MN.
And mine was Chicongo. As a teenage girl, I could take the train from Hinsdale, 20-miles west, get off at Union Station and walk across the loop to my dentist’s office on Michigan Boulevard. Today, I’d be murdered, gang=raped, and eviscerated before I got there. Sad as hell.