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I've lived in a big city for years now. Never seen anybody get mugged, or shot, or carjacked, despite doing activist work that often has me visiting poor minority neighborhoods.

The only time I ever really felt uneasy was when I had to walk alone at night through a neighborhood where all the businesses had bars on the windows. Worst thing that happened was a couple of people asking me for money, and they didn't give me any shit when I said I didn't carry cash.

But any time I visit the small town where I grew up there's always someone or another acting like I came back from a fucking warzone lmao

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

They fear what they don’t know.

A guy got murdered in his car near a place I was working in Miami. I saw a guy pee on a burger king in LA. I saw a young woman’s coochie in a park in San Francisco. I met some die hard TЯ卐m₽ supporters in Pensilvania. My father almost got car jacked in Chicago.

Shit happens all over the place all the time. More shit happens where there are more people.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Well why not pee on the burger king?

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

I've lived in a big city for years now. Never seen anybody get mugged, or shot, or carjacked, despite doing activist work that often has me visiting poor minority neighborhoods.

But any time I visit the small town where I grew up there's always someone or another acting like I came back from a fucking warzone lmao

I used to do the same in San Francisco before Covid, and I would constantly hear supposed "war stories" about the city that came straight from right wing rags and social media. Don't even get me started on the amount of San Francisco Copapologa mansplained (or womansplained sometimes) to me over so many years.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

I used to do the same in San Francisco before Covid, and I would constantly hear supposed "war stories" about the city that came straight from right wing rags and social media. Don't even get me started on the amount of San Francisco Copapologa mansplained (or womansplained sometimes) to me over so many years.

Every maybe-later-honey maybe-later-kiddo around the Bay Area, all the way to Oakland, seems to have an unhoused people ghost story to tell.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

'Im as far left liberal as it gets and even i agree we need a final solution for the homeless problem'

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

They cried during the Lion King theater production and they enjoy exotic foreign cuisine in fancy restaurants in their area so they can't be the chuds!

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

the lady that got posted on here who was horrified to the point of justifying their imprisonment or killing, IDR which, by like, a homeless person dancing in the street and a homeless person that dug up a little square of sod and took it

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

In my experience cities are way more dangerous because of dumbest car drivers constantly running red lights and almost hitting pedestrians. It felt terrible walking everywhere and trying to dodge cars, and I avoided riding a bicycle there as they frequently put bike lanes between car lanes and I had other bikers warn me about them having highest bicycle fatality rates in the country that year.

Cities where I live are just a scheme to get as many poor people ran over by giant confederate-flag waving trucks as possible

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

I live in a city and routinely leave my door unlocked, I've never felt even remotely unsafe- I go visit someones house in the suburbs and they've got cameras on their door, deadbolt locks, and a security system.

I'm more likely to die getting run over by a car than by a home invasion

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

My city has serious issues, but I also recognize racist Republican policies that have deliberately hamstrung it while diverting all its generated tax revenue to the suburbs. Dems tend to do slightly more than the bare minimum around here, so it's why I sometimes leave them out on criticism on local politics.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

I guess it depends on where you live. I'd choose my small rural town over Guatemala City any day. That place is a hellhole that most everybody living there wants to leave.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Chicago's alright. The hot dogs could be described as a warzone, but I like them for it.

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