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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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[DC] Why do people continue to live in Gotham City?
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It's where the money and the action is.

Housing prices and property values are low, goods and services are cheap, there's a whole underground scene there that's unbeatable, and there's always opportunities for employment because of the turnover and fatality rate for the citizens. Whatever you want, whatever you *need*, you can get, and legality or morality isn't an issue. 

And yet, there are all the social niceties other cities have, and if your goal is to sip champagne and watch the city through plate glass windows dozens of stories in the sky, you can do that. 

It's freedom living in Gotham. You can wake up in a king sized luxury bed, go to sleep in the gutter and nobody will give you hard time, notice or care. The cops don't bug you unless you're ripping off rich people or practically killing people, and even then you can usually make a deal if it comes down to it.

If you can make it in Gotham, you can write your own ticket anywhere in the world. 

Besides, if you're born there? Well, where else are you going to live? You were raised in the chaos and it's all you know. No place else functions like Gotham. This is your city and you're no sissy. No way you're going to leave your people to go live in some ivory tower in Metropolis. To do what, stare out at the perfectly cleaned streets and be bored to death? No way. 

Gotham has anything a person would ever want. The question is if you're tough enough to deserve it.