On stormfront you’ll read in massive subs such as r/soccer that Paris has a pocket of safety surrounded by pure crime. They’ll say shit like, “I went to Vienna and Budapest and not once did I feel unsafe”
You ‘felt’ unsafe? Are you just shitting your pants everytime you encounter an Arab or someone with slightly more melanin content? Like, almost every city I’ve ever been to where people say it’s unsafe is just a place with more minorities and I’ve never once felt unsafe.
Edit: check out this thread
https://old.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/y2uwg0/psg_ultras_hunted_down_and_attacked_with_a_knife/is51xl8/
99.9% of the time
there are certain streets in the city that you absolutely shouldnt walk down with 500 dollars strapped to your forehead but even as a very small woman ive only been verbally harassed despite walking around a fairly large city somewhat regularly
if youre friends with homeless people it makes your walk nicer, had one guy i know yell at a guy for harassing me once, bought him a burger a week or two later lmao
in general i think being a mugger probably isnt worth it these days because so many people carry credit cards only now. so if someone mugged me theyd get my shitty old 100 dollar phone which probably isnt worth the effort. not signed in or have credit cards set up on my phone either so all theyd get out of it are phone numbers if they get past the lock screen. pick pockets are more likely so if you walk with your hands in your pockets youre fine. someone might break into your car if your car is one of the easier ones to break into without needing to smash windows. but like... dont have anything obvious for them to grab and theyll ignore it because they only do quick glances. having a shitty working class car is in your favor
redditor: ok i shouldnt have done that but this is victim blaming
90% of the redditors that get mugged are probably running around in gucci clothes with 1000 dollar watches, a designer fedora, a tesla with 3 laptops in it, and a fat wallet sticking out of their asshole and doing a :shocked-pikachu: when they get mugged
To quote someone I saw on :reddit-logo: University of Chicago students have the most muggable faces.
The person also claimed to be a mugger in Chicago.
critical support
There are streets you shouldn't walk down with a croissant strapped to your forehead but French goblins gonna ohohohoho
:knifecat: when they see baguette
ohohohh oui
:sicko-biker:
Yeah being a shelter worker, it's nice seeing friendly faces whenever I go to the rougher parts of town.
Anyways I don't trust outsider opinions on cities. After 2020 I kept telling family that my city wasn't actually burning down in riots and nobody would believe me. People get wild ideas about places they don't live in.
Lol yeah this is so true. My parents will tell me about how my city is unlivable and crime infested wastelands. I have literally walked down the street in the worst parts of my city and haven't had any problems
Yeah, scams seem much more viable. I've had people attempt to scam me a whole bunch of times (The fare of the train literally JUST went up? I regularly take it, how come I've never heard of this? And how come it happens so much JUST to you?), but I've never thought anyone wanted to mug me.
Also, like, asking for 2.50 for train fare when you're actually panhandling is barely a scam.