Gavin Newsom destroyed California

Nope

Unfortunately, I live in Massachusetts in a semi-poverty town

Taxachusetts... and Massasses ruined NH too.

Good point, my answer is NO

Big cities with large economies and job opportunities? Sure why not.

Gang bangers shooting up the hoods, junkie zombies rolling around and hobos pooping in the streets is more accurate.

All of that happens in red states and red cities. Just look at West Virginia and how the opioid epidemic has destroyed so many lives in an all red state.

West Virginia was a Demorhhoid state for 80 f**kin' years. I worked as a crime reporter there for 20 years and I worked in a Rehab for 7. You'll never know as much about WV as I've forgotten. WV became a HIDA (High Drug Activity Area) when Demorhhoids ran it. Do you know why?
Because Demorhhoid politicians BOUGHT VOTES with Oxycontin. Every deadbeat in the state who refused to get a job got a Medicaid card to provide them with Oxys to vote Straight Party Ticket. It only became a Republican state after 8 years of Obamanomics destroyed its economy.

It has been a conservative state the whole time it was a state

People in red states turn to drugs because the economy is garbage and poverty is high

Got a point there. Plus the aforementioned large economies and job opportunities. There's growth in those two, as well as a variety of housing, tourism, people with money in the bank, educational facilities of higher learning, people that actually go to educational facilities of higher learning, people that actually go to educational facilities of higher learning and earn a degree, people that actually go to educational facilities of higher learning and earn a degree and get a job, and people that buy homes that are not strictly limited to particle boards as walls.

However, at least in smaller community there's more consistency. There's far less of a social hierarchy because there isn't much of a social hierarchy to be had. Everyone's pretty much the same class - lower socio-economic. Somewhat short on education, somewhat short on the job skills, somewhat short on the jobs, somewhat short on the job income.

And while they seem to lag on all things economic and cultural, they are at the forefront of cultural trends such as methamphetamine and fentanyl addiction. As well as featuring a 31% higher homicide rates what's not to shove?

So some of the richest states in the country hell yeah

San Francisco has seen a record drop in crime BEFORE Trump did anything

Y’all forget these cities?