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As a Canadian who moved to the United States this is something that I worry about all the time. That putting myself into this situation might just randomly lead
by nathanvanfleet 5y ago
As a Canadian who moved to the United States this is something that I worry about all the time. That putting myself into this situation might just randomly lead to some random violent event happening to me. I remember that within a month of moving here about a block from me there was reports of someone driving their car down the sidewalk. Just last month someone was high on something, climbed up on the top of the Castro theatre, and started throwing cinder blocks down on people. While that's not really the riskiest situation it kind of summarizes some things that seem "normal" in the US that I would never dream might happen where I am from.
- amscanne 5y agoFWIW, people drive down sidewalks in Canada too (famously in 2018). While on average the U.S. may have more violence than Canada, it’s certainly not correct say that it is “normal” in the U.S. and you would never dream of it in Canada. To frame it another way: I imagine that the safer neighborhoods in the U.S. are still safer than danger neighborhoods in Canada. The U.S. is also 10x the size of Canada, so you expect 10x as many bad things happening. (I’m also a Canadian living in the U.S. and it bugs me a bit when Canadians romanticize Canada in this way. Your perception is probably much more related to the specific places you lived in Canada and live now and the US.)