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True that, for China. When I visited China, Beijing / Shanghai felt safer than San Francisco, especially when walking at the night.
by RestlessMind 8y ago
True that, for China. When I visited China, Beijing / Shanghai felt safer than San Francisco, especially when walking at the night.
- mc32 8y agoI agree it may “feel” safer, but a lot of that, in my experience, comes down to not knowing what you don’t know about a place. For example, I would say, “oh, yeah, such and such place seems alright, not bad, I walked around and felt fine.” Locals would say something like, what, that’s nuts, we don’t go there unless we’re looking to get knifed, stay away from that area, it’s trouble”. Now, I also know that locals are prone to exaggeration too, but just goes to show that as an outsider we may enjoy naive safety.
- RestlessMind 8y agoWhat you are saying is true in general, but I experienced both sets of places as a tourist. So for me, "not knowing what you don't know" applied to both sets of places.