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

  • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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    1 year 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.

    • CTHlurker [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Only tangentially related to your comment, but you made me curious about whether Guatamala City was "high" enough to qualify for the Most Dangerous City ranking.

      Gotta admit, I was not expecting so many of the highest murder rates to be in Mexico. I figured a lot more of Central America would have been up in that list. Also incredibly funny that St. Louis is ranked higher than Capetown and every other brazillian city.

      Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/243797/ranking-of-the-most-dangerous-cities-in-the-world-by-murder-rate-per-capita/

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Yeah St. Louis is real, real bad. That place is a mess. Ferguson, the place where Michael Brown was murdered and Black Lives Matter started, is part of that metro. iirc there were more outstanding bench warrants for petty crimes and non-crimes in Ferguson than there were adults. The city was farming those people for revenues, it's disgusting. Then add all the other issues America, and especially the state of Misery/Missouri, have, and you end up with a metro like St. Louis.