I sort of feel the same way about the town where we are from. We would live there, but it has become a cesspool. It has become overrun with drugs, youth gangs, racist propaganda, and other garbage. Like your town, the politicians and people of means just seem to ignore it. We moved back there after I retired from the military, but after my mother passed, we couldn't stand it any longer. We had things stolen from us and vandalized. It was too much. Not a place where we wanted our youngest son to finish being raised and schooling. So we picked up and moved to where we are now.