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
I've visited big cities. Lived in a medium sized city. Lived rural.
At least if I got shot in the city there might be somebody willing to apply compression and the hospital isn't 40 minutes away. If somebody pops me out in the boonies I'm probably toast.