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Sounds like you haven't been around the US much. There are cheap places and safe places to live. Stay away from the bigger liberal cities if street violence i
by ipaddr 4y ago
Sounds like you haven't been around the US much. There are cheap places and safe places to live. Stay away from the bigger liberal cities if street violence is a concern.
If the US looks like South America you've fallen into a media trap. You are being sold something untrue but packaged perfectly so everyone gets paid. Where in America would you get pick pocked like south america? Disney World? The mean streets of Akron Ohio? Nonsense..
- auggierose 4y agoDowntown in any major US city is a pretty scary place.
- tatersolid 4y agoI’m in downtown Boston right now, just after being in downtown London. London is WAY scarier, and I was in the Mayfair neighborhood! Violence is not a concern for the overwhelming majority of Americans in their daily lives. EDIT: not that ANYONE should have to worry about violence in their daily lives; one just saying the US isn’t what you see in the movies or on 24x7 news.
- auggierose 4y agoBoston: 700.000 people London: 9.000.000 people That is, London is the size of New York. Just the fact that you are comparing Boston with London kind of proves my point.
- dukeyukey 4y agoI've never been to the US, but I've lived in London for nearly 6 years now. I don't think I've ever felt threatened in London, and I've been drunk in iffy neighborhoods at 3am _a lot_. What made it feel threatening to you?
- ipaddr 4y agoThe drunk iffy characters in my neighborhood at 3am
- piva00 4y agoIn South America you don't get pickpocket'ed, you get mugged. With a gun, or knife. Still, the USA does feel eerily similar to my native country (Brazil), I've lived in Brazil, the USA and Sweden, it's pretty clear how Brazil got modeled after the American way of life. You do have to work, a lot, otherwise you'll be replaced (just like in the USA); your status do matter, bigger house, bigger car, etc. (just like in the USA); you do need to earn a decent/higher wage if you want to live a comfortable and safe life (just like in the USA). So yes, life in the USA is much closer to South America than to Europe.
- pelasaco 4y agoYou are generalizing, and in some cases, comparing apples with oranges. Is NY safer than Florianopolis or is LA nicer than Piriápolis, Uruguay? I doubt. But that's not the point, but the point of wall up, gear up, move up from the city, private schools for safety, and etc.
- piva00 4y agoIs NYC safer than Florianópolis? Yup, considering there were 400-ish murders in NYC in 2022 with some 8 million people in the city proper, there were 44 in Florianópolis in 2021 with a population of 400k, double the rate of NYC per capita.
- ipaddr 4y agoThe US is not one place. From the snowy Alaska fishing towns to Hawaiian huts to Maine forest lodges to Florida condos to Desert Ranches to NYC apartments you will find Europe if you are looking. In California/NY they will tax you like a European but in Florida they won't tax your income at all
- pelasaco 4y agoLooks like you are missing the point. Akron Ohio, well guess what, there as well pretty calm cities in South America too. But that's not the point. The point is, people trying to get rich, to stay alive (buy private security, private school, private health care, better walls, etc)
- ipaddr 4y agoThe kidnapping of tourists is a South American industry, the walls try to keep that out. No one buys private security.