re: So I just Returned Home From a Weekend Trip To Jackson, MS

Most professional firms, entertainment, shopping/higher end retail and many outpatient medical facilities have vacated Jxn. There's not much reason for those who live in the burbs to enter into Jxn and most don't. Many professionals who used to work in Jxn now work in Madison, Ridgeland or Flowood.

Simply put, there's not much hope and it will continue to get worse. Tons of political grift and sheer incompetence over decades have doomed the city.

Current leadership has no viable vision for the path forward and not much interest in working with the state and surrounding communities. The default is to blame everything on race.

The state had to take over policing of what's left of downtown and nearby upper income areas.