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Noone ever robbed me in 30 years of living in a big Eastern city. On the other hand I was robbed twice in a single day in Paris. Police was watching the dude r

by pojzon 4y ago

Noone ever robbed me in 30 years of living in a big Eastern city. On the other hand I was robbed twice in a single day in Paris. Police was watching the dude run away. I wont say his ethnicity.

nicbou 4y ago
"I won't say his ethnicity" Why not say nothing at all about it?
- watwut 4y ago
  Because he wanted to imply it. He wanted us to be clear on that it was not white person robbing him.
watwut 4y ago
Big Eastern cities have robberies too. And fights too. They are not some kind of hellholes, most are safe enough. But they are not safer then western cities. Small Eastern cities do have criminality too, for that matter. Both organized and low level one. As I said, it is all improving in general, but claim that they are oh so safer is not true.
- adhesive_wombat 4y ago
  Eastern cities can also be safer for foreigners in general. Cities like Prague depend on being tourist hotspots. If they get a reputation for being dangerous, they'll lose a lot of rich people a lot of money. Serious crime against foreigners may be dealt with harshly enough that criminals learn to stick to the locals and limit to mild scams on the tourists. After all, the tourists bring the money that they can then steal from a local at leisure.
  - 988747 4y ago
    >> Cities like Prague depend on being tourist hotspots. No, they don't. Prague is the capitol of Czech republic, there is a lot of business there, and tourists are just nuisance. Same for big Polish cities like Warsaw or Cracow. Crimes against foreigners are not treated any different than crimes against locals, there's simply not much crime to begin with. https://www.numbeo.com/crime/compare_cities.jsp?country1=Poland&city1=Warsaw&country2=France&city2=Paris https://www.numbeo.com/crime/compare_cities.jsp?country1=Pol...
dTal 4y ago
> I wont say his ethnicity. Coward.
screye 4y ago
> single day in Paris The 'Paris experience' famously does not scale to the rest of Western Europe. Getting mugged/fleeced by someone on day 1 in Paris is a ubiquitous experience that I have never heard be replicated anywhere else.
- inglor_cz 4y ago
  Smaller calles of Barcelona have a bad reputation too. And Marseille's old quarter took a lot of effort to sanitize for the tourists. Marseille is the only city in Europe where I was waken up at night by gunshots.

by pojzon 4y ago

Noone ever robbed me in 30 years of living in a big Eastern city. On the other hand I was robbed twice in a single day in Paris. Police was watching the dude run away. I wont say his ethnicity.

nicbou 4y ago

"I won't say his ethnicity" Why not say nothing at all about it?

watwut 4y ago
Because he wanted to imply it. He wanted us to be clear on that it was not white person robbing him.

watwut 4y ago

Big Eastern cities have robberies too. And fights too. They are not some kind of hellholes, most are safe enough. But they are not safer then western cities. Small Eastern cities do have criminality too, for that matter. Both organized and low level one. As I said, it is all improving in general, but claim that they are oh so safer is not true.

adhesive_wombat 4y ago
Eastern cities can also be safer for foreigners in general. Cities like Prague depend on being tourist hotspots. If they get a reputation for being dangerous, they'll lose a lot of rich people a lot of money. Serious crime against foreigners may be dealt with harshly enough that criminals learn to stick to the locals and limit to mild scams on the tourists. After all, the tourists bring the money that they can then steal from a local at leisure.
- 988747 4y ago
  >> Cities like Prague depend on being tourist hotspots. No, they don't. Prague is the capitol of Czech republic, there is a lot of business there, and tourists are just nuisance. Same for big Polish cities like Warsaw or Cracow. Crimes against foreigners are not treated any different than crimes against locals, there's simply not much crime to begin with. https://www.numbeo.com/crime/compare_cities.jsp?country1=Poland&city1=Warsaw&country2=France&city2=Paris https://www.numbeo.com/crime/compare_cities.jsp?country1=Pol...

dTal 4y ago

> I wont say his ethnicity. Coward.

screye 4y ago

> single day in Paris The 'Paris experience' famously does not scale to the rest of Western Europe. Getting mugged/fleeced by someone on day 1 in Paris is a ubiquitous experience that I have never heard be replicated anywhere else.

inglor_cz 4y ago
Smaller calles of Barcelona have a bad reputation too. And Marseille's old quarter took a lot of effort to sanitize for the tourists. Marseille is the only city in Europe where I was waken up at night by gunshots.