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[Batman] For members of the regular mob; Is there any real reason to operate out of Gotham?

Forget about Batman for a moment; but it’s also a town that’s a constant warring battle ground for The Penguin’s gang... Hatter’s henchmen, Black Mask, Riddler, Falcone, Maxi Zeus... and so on and so on and so on...

And once you add the headache of Batman, Robin, Nightwing, Spoiler... Batgirl... Batwoman, frequent visits from members of the Justice League, the GCPD, Where’s the profit to be made, by trying to lay claim to a city block in Gotham, let alone one of it’s Boroughs?
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The police are *awful*. Underfunded, riddled with corruption, hopeless, almost all the competent police transferred to other cities. The people are used to looking the other way and not prying their noses in.  Sure, the Batfamily is a problem, but it's also, like, 10 people. Unless you're unlucky enough to bump into one of them or one of the 4 good cops in the city, the forces of law really don't have much power here, at least until you get big enough that Batman goes after you specifically, and then you have the money and connections to fight back.  


As for the other supervillians? Sure, their gangs are a threat, but you'll have other gangs operating anywhere you happen to go. The penguin's mob is only different from the Metropolis Mafia in that the head of the Metropolis Mafia doesn't walk around making bird noises and building murder umbrellas. Most of Gotham's supervillians are just crime lords in stupid costumes. You'd need to take *someone* down to lay claim to an area anyway. It's not gonna be harder if that someone is wearing green question marks and talking like a puzzle book.  


The more chaotic supervillians- Joker, Killer Croc, Poison Ivy- again, *dangerous*, but just one person, and they rarely care too much about the comings and going of the mob. Unless you're unlucky enough to bump into one, they'll mostly stick to their own weird plans. Sure they might try to destroy the city sometimes, but it's the DCU, that happens wherever you go. If anything, Gotham's safer. Sure, Joker's bad, but in metropolis you'll occasionally have General Zod wreck the place and that fucker can tank a nuke.  


Basically? The actual odds of meeting a supervillian or superhero are pretty low, and without that, what you have is a city with powerless police, apathetic citizenry and rival mob bosses who are all hampered by debilitating mental health conditions and overwhelming obsessions with batman.  


If you're willing to live with a little risk? Gotham is a great place to make a fortune as an up and coming crime lord. Choose a theme, put on a Halloween costume and get ready to make it big!