Do you really not understand? Or are you just messing with me? The 7 minute standard is how government officials determine where to locate police stations and fire houses and what infrastructure improvements are priority. Obviously emergency services won’t respond to every call in 7 minutes, though in my town they often do.

“Balkanization” implies that the different jurisdictions are at odds with one another. Actually there is a high degree of cooperation between adjacent communities, states, and federal officials, except of course in sanctuary cities.

I’m glad you’re enjoying your new home. Let’s have a friendly competition; you continue living with the results of multiculturalism and socialism, We’ll continue pushing back. Let’s see whose society collapses.