Hmm, so this boarding up and creating pesudo potemkin villages, they would once and for all disprove the theory of the broken glass windows right? Or how is the crime level in these areas?

Other than that is fun to know that world operate the same everywhere, it used to be villages were abandoned and become deserted due to famine and plague but now they are gone completely due to economics since it is so diverted from the land it is on.