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in reply to @atomheart's post:
I was gonna say, I used to live in Bellevue and I knew people who never, ever crossed the lake
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:
the amount of times where people have like sighed and said "oh no" when I've mentioned that I'm from/near detroit
my experience has mostly just been "maybe be careful about that one place if it's dark"
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
Portlander here and when I got this kind of reaction back in 2020/2021 I absolutely replied with "yeah the cops are out of control here". It's just a place, we all worked the whole time!
im like, way more scared of getting run over by a car than literally anything else in a city. my fear of a particular city is proportional to the lane widths i think
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
in reply to @atax1a's post:
i habitually walked through the tenderloin with an om-4ti and occasionally a pentax 67 around my neck and was not bothered one single time
we walked around visibly trans all over san francisco and, possibly because we don't carry ourselves as a slimy little toad whose power rests in their gun, nobody bothered us
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