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What American town have you ever felt the most unsafe?

DerekJohnson
DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 68,299 Founders Club
For me it was Sparks, NV. Special set of circumstances, however.

And I have been on foot in the Bronx after dark. That was totally fine.
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  • DJDuck
    DJDuck Member Posts: 5,970
  • Swaye
    Swaye Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 41,739 Founders Club
    Jersey City, NJ. What a fucking shithole. Cannot believe I didn't get shanked in broad daylight.
  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,028
    Nowhere. Because The Throbber is one tough purple motherfucker and very cuddly.

  • MikeDamone
    MikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781
  • GreenRiverGatorz
    GreenRiverGatorz Member Posts: 10,165
    Swaye said:

    Jersey City, NJ. What a fucking shithole. Cannot believe I didn't get shanked in broad daylight.

    It's now the Bellevue of NYC. God bless gentrification.
  • MikeDamone
    MikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781

    Swaye said:

    Jersey City, NJ. What a fucking shithole. Cannot believe I didn't get shanked in broad daylight.

    It's now the Bellevue of NYC. God bless gentrification.
    I prefer white flight
  • Swaye
    Swaye Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 41,739 Founders Club

    Swaye said:

    Jersey City, NJ. What a fucking shithole. Cannot believe I didn't get shanked in broad daylight.

    It's now the Bellevue of NYC. God bless gentrification.
    I must have been in the wrong part. The really shitty part.
  • Sledog
    Sledog Member Posts: 37,695 Standard Supporter
    South end of Watts because it looked like it had just been bombed and i was searching the sky for enemy planes.

    I've had groups of gang members see me in my UC vehicle and start flipping me off and throwing signs. I flipped them off. I had a submachine gun in my lap so it wasn't me that should have felt unsafe.
  • MikeDamone
    MikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781
    Sledog said:

    South end of Watts because it looked like it had just been bombed and i was searching the sky for enemy planes.

    I've had groups of gang members see me in my UC vehicle and start flipping me off and throwing signs. I flipped them off. I had a submachine gun in my lap so it wasn't me that should have felt unsafe.

    Assuming there was one of you, you were definitely the one who should have felt unsafe.

  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    edited January 2020

    Atlanta can get sketchy real quick.

    Check on New Orleans. Stick tightly to the chamber of commerce trail map for tourists or you're asking for it.

    Not what they once were, but Overtown, Liberty City or Carol City in Miami. Back in the day, there was nothing like it. They've softened a bit, but I still would not be caught walking through even in daylight.

    NY - uh, none of the boroughs are tuff anymore. None.

    Lolz for any mention of anything Seattle. Tuffest neighborhood in the NW is Hilltop baby. Ask Ballz. Seattle is like Disney World compared to most US cities.

    Worst I've experienced? Wandering off the campus of the University of Chicago. South Side baby! It ain't no joke.

    I told a wrong turn, walking, out of the MARTA in pre-smartphone days. I didn't feel exactly unsafe but extremely out of place. I tapped out, called a cab, and found I was just a few blocks from the high-rise office I was headed to.


    Most unsafe, quite easily, is Crow Agency, Montana.

    edit, that's behind Salem & Eugene of course.
  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter

    Besides my hometown?

    Everett. This was ten years ago, so I’m sure things have changed, but I thought it was sketchy as hell.

    Oh, and Detroit. Even the airport felt unsafe.

    There are some really shitty parts of Everett. The intersection of Everett Ave & Broadway is probably the largest, most consistent, and most pathetic collection of bums & crazies in SnoCo.
  • HHusky
    HHusky Member Posts: 23,891
    Elevated rail in Chicago.
  • BleachedAnusDawg
    BleachedAnusDawg Member Posts: 13,170 Standard Supporter

    Atlanta can get sketchy real quick.

    Check on New Orleans. Stick tightly to the chamber of commerce trail map for tourists or you're asking for it.

    Not what they once were, but Overtown, Liberty City or Carol City in Miami. Back in the day, there was nothing like it. They've softened a bit, but I still would not be caught walking through even in daylight.

    NY - uh, none of the boroughs are tuff anymore. None.

    Lolz for any mention of anything Seattle. Tuffest neighborhood in the NW is Hilltop baby. Ask Ballz. Seattle is like Disney World compared to most US cities.

    Worst I've experienced? Wandering off the campus of the University of Chicago. South Side baby! It ain't no joke.

    South side of Chicago is a war zone. Chi-Raq is a real thing. Took a cab to a Bulls game that went through that area. Prayed to real God every time we got stopped at a red light.

    Atlantic City, NJ was pretty grimy a block off the main strip 15 years back. Definitely had some people giving me and a buddy some dirty looks.

    Philly is an absolute dump outside of the historic / downtown areas. Would not recommend anyone visit that city.

    NYC was really not that bad.

    Seattle is not anywhere near the level of those areas, and it's because of demographics. Worst place is probably downtown at this point.
  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,028
    USMChawk said:

    New Orleans. Went to a couple of bars, off Bourbon Street, and had the unpleasant conversation with a group of men who were just sizing us up. You know the one where everyone pretends we’re all friends here, while we decide if we’re going to kill you? Three of us (all Marines) and five of them. We were drunk (but not that drunk) but we all had combat experience. Even so, we had no weapons so the end result would have been us losing. But, and this is the important part, we would have gotten ours. I know the exact moment that dawned on them because the tone changed and we were on our way.

    Stay out of the pie shaped triangle from Poydras to Esplanade and you're good in NOLA. Pro tip.

    If that doesn't work, lie and tell them you're Steve Gleasons cousin visiting from the Northwest. They love their Gleason there.

    If he dies, you're pretty well fucked.
  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,218 Founders Club
    Row boat natty used to happen in Camden, NJ. I can remember sitting in the van thinking cool fucking city man.
  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter

    Atlanta can get sketchy real quick.

    Check on New Orleans. Stick tightly to the chamber of commerce trail map for tourists or you're asking for it.

    Not what they once were, but Overtown, Liberty City or Carol City in Miami. Back in the day, there was nothing like it. They've softened a bit, but I still would not be caught walking through even in daylight.

    NY - uh, none of the boroughs are tuff anymore. None.

    Lolz for any mention of anything Seattle. Tuffest neighborhood in the NW is Hilltop baby. Ask Ballz. Seattle is like Disney World compared to most US cities.

    Worst I've experienced? Wandering off the campus of the University of Chicago. South Side baby! It ain't no joke.

    Philly is an absolute dump outside of the historic / downtown areas. Would not recommend anyone visit that city.
    I've loved Philly, my favorite major city. Granted, I never got out of the historic/downtown area.
  • Pitchfork51
    Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 27,662

    Atlanta can get sketchy real quick.

    Check on New Orleans. Stick tightly to the chamber of commerce trail map for tourists or you're asking for it.

    Not what they once were, but Overtown, Liberty City or Carol City in Miami. Back in the day, there was nothing like it. They've softened a bit, but I still would not be caught walking through even in daylight.

    NY - uh, none of the boroughs are tuff anymore. None.

    Lolz for any mention of anything Seattle. Tuffest neighborhood in the NW is Hilltop baby. Ask Ballz. Seattle is like Disney World compared to most US cities.

    Worst I've experienced? Wandering off the campus of the University of Chicago. South Side baby! It ain't no joke.

    Philly is an absolute dump outside of the historic / downtown areas. Would not recommend anyone visit that city.
    I've loved Philly, my favorite major city. Granted, I never got out of the historic/downtown area.
    Philly is a total shithole overl but always a damn fun time when I go lol
  • Pitchfork51
    Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 27,662
    edited January 2020
    The first actual ghetto I've been in was when I had to drive to a manufacturing plant in some shitty area of Baltimore

    I was like holy fucking balls. Just burn it all the fuck down. It's hopeless.
  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,028

    The first actual ghetto I've been in was when I had to drive to a manufacturing plant in some shitty area of Baltimore

    I was like holy fucking balls. Just burn it all the fuck down. It's hopeless.

    West Balmer from Towson Ave on is scary as fuck.