When I was traveling in Japan, even in some of the sketchier areas my only worry was that I might get yelled at or maybe at worst get in a fight if I started so

When I was traveling in Japan, even in some of the sketchier areas my only worry was that I might get yelled at or maybe at worst get in a fight if I started something. Not once did I fear for my or my wife's safety even late at night. There is something magical about living somewhere like that which I can only fantasize about as someone who grew up in Chicago taking the 36 to school and having to avoid crazy people and always looking over my shoulder. And that was in a nice part of East Lakeview.