I kinda worry about the "trendicators" south of the border. For example in recent... decades I haven't really spent all that much time at Queen's Park but I remember that it used to be more of a "walk in" sort of thing, everybody was welcome. And then security and pat-downs and so on got ratcheted up. Anyway the last time I was there the Liberal minister of the day replied to an opposition question about the minimum wage by literally saying "oh we have to keep in step with our American partners"!
Downtown L.A. used to be bad but - especially with the synthetic opioids - it's over the top. VERY FEW MENTIONS of this in recent municipal elections.
I recommend DW Gibson's
The Edge Become the Center (which was recommended by someone from the Akelius network)
https://play.google.com/store/books/details/DW_Gibson_The_Edge_Becomes_the_Center]