Freedom of association allows people to leave a bad place for communities they would prefer. Or stay if the hellhole is what they really want.

The suffering or squalor in Detroit is probably more than offset by the joy in the lives of those who found better places to live. That’s how freedom of association is supposed to work. But the suffering and squalor are still there. And until the culture that created them is purged, and those in government who made it possible it suffer retribtion, they will always exist.