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Maybe I was lucky, but I never felt in danger in major US cities walking literally everywhere. While in D.F. I had some anxiety outside of central roads.
by homakov 10y ago
Maybe I was lucky, but I never felt in danger in major US cities walking literally everywhere. While in D.F. I had some anxiety outside of central roads.
- _delirium 10y agoIt's hard to give some objective analysis, but I don't personally feel safe walking alone at night in large areas of NYC, Baltimore, Chicago, Atlanta, Detroit, St Louis, Miami, etc.
- Trill-I-Am 10y agoWhat parts of NYC?
- _delirium 10y agoMost of the Bronx, about half of Queens, about 1/3 of Brooklyn. Manhattan is mostly gentrified these days, with only a handful of exceptions. Staten Island is odd b/c it is barely walkable to begin with, so it's neither safe nor dangerous to walk.
- magic_beans 10y agoTo be fair, unless you live in the hood in the Bronx or Brooklyn, why would you be walking around alone at night anyway? Also... in which parts of Queens did you feel unsafe? Queens is actually quite safe.
- shados 10y agoEverything is relative to what you're used to I guess. I'm from a Canadian suburb, where a 16 years old girl who got attacked in a dark alley at 3:30 am while alone made the news for 3 months because that was the worse thing that had happened in decades. Now I'm in Boston, in a heavily gentrified area, and I'm scared shitless after 11 pm. People all tell me it's a super safe area, but I know a few people who got mugged a few blocks away in various occasions. Maybe it's just bad luck. Maybe compared to other areas, a few people getting their backpack stolen is nothing. But feelings are not always rationals. I don't feel safe here.
- Arizhel 10y agoI wouldn't want to walk around Washington Heights in Manhattan alone at night; I didn't feel terribly safe there during the daytime. The Bronx is not a terribly safe place either. Sure, downtown/midtown Manhattan are very safe, but Manhattan is a minority of the overall area of NYC.
- aianus 10y agoI was more scared just outside work at the Twitter HQ in SF (Market and 10th) than I was anywhere in DF.
- akinalci 10y agoThere are parts of SF I'd rather not be in at any time of day. That includes the area around Twitter HQ.
- driverdan 10y agoWhy? You find homeless people scary?
- magic_beans 10y agoLet's be real: some of the people on drugs or with mental illness can be really aggressive.
- ptaipale 10y agoHomelessness is not a root cause for things; it is one symptom of fundamental problems that people have. Other symptoms include aggressiveness and unpredictability. These other symptoms may also be at least a partial reason why the people are homeless. Not all nor even a majority of homeless people developed countries are aggressive or unpredictable, but the risk is higher. Around here most of them are quite tame and humble, at least most of the time, and I'd much rather use the word "weak" than "bad", though. But yes, homeless people can be scary. Being a stranger in SF, I was somewhat alarmed when driving in the city and finding myself in a central neighbourhood where I wouldn't want to stop at the red light.