I love outside of Gary Indiana, and yeah it can be dangerous if you look lost or like you have no purpose for being there, but there's also good working people just trying to eke out the same shit living we all are. I hear my mom and sisters say this kind of shit and it's just like. Sigh

Edit; for some fun examples look on any reddit thread about dangerous trips or some shit and people will constantly talk about how badass they were for driving through Gary or St Louis or some shit.

It's not a warzone mayos.

  • Dr_Gabriel_Aby [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    My career has me in these types of neighborhoods all the time in the Acela corridor and it breaks me up.

    All the people leaving for work in the morning are in uniforms: sanitation, UPS, USPS, Home Depot, Starbucks, you name it.

    When I’m there during the day I have never ever been bothered, homeless people don’t really stay in these neighborhoods, and even at night if I have been bothered it’s because I walk into or around a busier nightlife street.

    I am white and look very out of place. I am carrying extremely expensive photo equipment and almost always alone. I knock on random doors and canvas often.

    Consistently, the most threatened I’ve been is in really nice neighborhoods with village police, (threatened with arrest) or outerborough townhomes/ close corridor suburban homes owned by old white guys with Ring cameras. (Threatened with being shot.)