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When I lived in DC a few years ago, it was absolutely a dangerous place. There were places you didn’t go after dark. The thing I liked least was the unpredictab
by ungreased0675 1y ago
When I lived in DC a few years ago, it was absolutely a dangerous place. There were places you didn’t go after dark. The thing I liked least was the unpredictably of encountering an aggressive bum. Could be on the subway, in the mall, in a parking garage, on the street, where’s it going to be today? DC is the only place I’ve been that had that characteristic. It’s not dangerous everywhere, and not all the time, but pretending like it isn’t is ignorant, dishonest, or financially blessed to live above all that.
- cafard 1y agoWhen I moved to the DC area at the end of the 1970s, I heard from acquaintances that it's not whether you will be mugged, it's when. My when turned out to be 1983. I don't think that people think that way these days. Now and then there is a holdup in my neighborhood, but they are rare. There is porch piracy, sometimes cars get broken into. I would be interested to learn of a city of comparable size that does not have "places you didn't go after dark".