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That in three weeks in living in the "bad" part of a city with a negative reputation I've had more positive and helpful interactions with neighbours than the previous twenty years.


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in reply to @atomheart's post:

There's so many people out there that are either paranoid about theoretical "big city crime" or their parents were; I still run into people from time to time that are flabbergasted that I took the city bus to middle school in San Diego

in reply to @atomheart's post:

I remember people talking about how terrible and violent glasgow is and like... pretty much all of it is concentrated out in the northeast and even then it's basically just shithead neds egging the houses

in reply to @atomheart's post:

in late 2021 (after the vaccines were out for a while and we took all possible precautions) I visited a friend in Portland. I was getting patted down at my local midwest city's airport and the TSA guy was making small talk. I mentioned I was heading to portland when he asked (probably shouldn't volunteer info in the future) and the guy looked at me like I said I was going to Syria. I half expected to be asked into a side room for questioning the way he reacted.

Like, it's literally just a normal city where people live not an active warzone.

I have to think that part of his reaction was due to all the news about BLM protests going on at the time (namely, that a lot of media outlets were trying Really Hard to make it seem like the protests were horrifying anarchist terrorist movements and Not like the local police forces were literally making parts of the city unsafe to be in)

but also I live in a completely different large city over a thousand miles away, so take with a grain of salt/I probably don't know all the details/etc

I kind of wonder what they see when they look around Philly. it was my favorite city to live in without a car, just because it was so easy to get around with a mix of walking, busses and subway