Locked public restrooms are the ultimate sign of urban decay

Locked public restrooms are an easy-to-spot sign that a municipality is suffering from an underinvestment in public infrastructure. If a city doesn't maintain public restrooms it's likely that other essential services are suffering from a similar lack of attention.

From David Perell's Monday Musings newsletter:

Testing the Social Health of a CityI use a heuristic to judge the social health of cities I explore.  — Read the rest