The prison gets romanticized way more than it deserves

I’m rewatching season 4 and I get why everyone remembers the prison as the group’s best home, but it was honestly a terrible long term setup.

The fences were always one big herd away from collapsing, sickness spread through the cell blocks insanely fast, and the Governor already knew exactly where they were. They finally had food growing and some kind of normal life, but it never really felt sustainable.

Alexandria was soft when Rick’s group first arrived, but it had actual houses, power, strong walls and much more potential once the right people were running it.

Was the prison actually the best place they ever had, or do people just remember it that way because those seasons were so good?