I dunno breh, I think you’re generalizing. Most nikkas ain’t jumping to join gangs and shyt if they have proper guidance at home, even if they grow up in metro housing. I’m one of those brehs. My friends are those brehs. I got brehs from Malvern, Parkdale, Flemo, Rexdale and me myself I’m from downtown. We all doing good, being positive, some brehs got businesses, most of us married, some have children, owning properties. We thriving. And that’s not to say we didn’t have some dust ups as teenagers and made mistakes in different ways but overall that made all of us better.
But I’m biased cuz I was raised downtown, I’m raising my kid downtown and I’m not leaving downtown anytime soon haha.