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.
Back when all the "no go zone" hysteria was in full swing and the Daily Mail had produced a list of places in the UK where it's unsafe to be white and Fox News had a guy who couldn't pronounce Birmingham call it a virtual sharia state. I had an argument with an American redditor who was convinced [city I was working in at the time] was comprised almost entirely of Muslims and if you were white and in the wrong street you'd be straight up murdered.
No matter what I told him, he was still convinced he knew more about what it was like in [city I was working in at the time] than I did because he was told the real truth™ (by /pol/ users presumably).