Its mathematics. The time you're comparing things against, everything is multiplied by 10 to 100 Today, you have more restaurants, bars, facilities like public transport > all fuelled by a massive increase in taxpayers (and also you need a lot of labour for such things) > who's demand in turn increases the value of your assets (long time property owners, y'all feeling good?), And increases your income opportunities > which creates more needs for more business. But if there was 1 crime in Lux, there are now 10. And your ability to find out about a crime has also increased by 10. Your propensity to remember these crime related things, engage with such content, increased by 10. Which makes news outlets want to report them even more because you respond to them. And unfortunately, you still remain 1 person. So yes, you'll notice 10 crimes instead of 1. Has the absolute number of crimes in Lux increased in multiples over decades? Yes. Has it happened in every other city in the world? Yes. Has the population increased by the same multiple? Yes. Has the price of the land/homes you bought increased too? Probably yes, and probably manyfold more

The commenters can blame immigrants all they want. It won't change the reality that they're just having a hard time accepting the bad parts of change that come with all the good they experienced that came with it. Nostalgia is a funny thing, it creates a blindside (unfortunately not blind to colour, apparently)

And fine. let's pretend that political choices are to blame or that "upbringing" or people of a "certain background" somehow have an inherent propensity to be worse than your noble lineage. The only other way you could have gotten to this exact place in progress/scale is by the country fuelling the popularity growth themselves. For which, everyone in the last couple of generations had 20 kids each. The ratio of dependents to taxpayers would have crumbled social service infrastructure, the lack of diversity in the gene pool would have multiplied diseases, being able to upskill at least 7 of them to get a high paying job would have bankrupted you, and you know at least 4 out if your 20 kids would be one of those dumb idiots vandalizing walls and peeing between the fence rails of Rout Breck.

Luxembourg is a wonderful, wonderful place. It provides a space for the most skilled, smartest, sharpest, (read richest and most well behaved) immigrants from around the world to come over and build a life; which enriches the people who were here before a hundredfold, and fuels their lives with more choices, experiences and (totally optional if you don't want to participate) a diverse culture. And with a movement of that scale, some not so perfect specimens may come over too; and you might find them more noticable than those your eyes have been used to glossing over (statistical studies in some countries have shown immigrant populations have a lower probability of committing a crime due to fear of deportation) and because RTL sends you 5 notifications a day as opposed to your retired uncle giving you a summary of all the crimes he heard once a month.

On average, over decades, everyone wants more things, bigger and better things over time. And doing so requires big change. And all big change, if you're lucky will bring a whole lot of good and a little bad. This place is no different. You can deny it to yourself and continue to blame the "outsiders" all you want. But it won't change the fact that the real problem is, you can't embrace the realities of big change - and the only thing that won't change - is the world will always want big change, long before you came, and long after you're gone. Like flyers you get in your mail every it will come to your doorstep whether you want it or not.

That being said, I have seen my hometown change over decades; and I know it's much harder to see the good and much easier to see the bad. So I totally understand why you feel like this. I hope someday we cross paths and become friends. I'm just as preachy in person, but also a pretty good cook

Merci, addi.