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.
I remember hearing about how bad Oakland was thought my childhood. When I was 18, I saw the population of Oakland is 400,000+ people and I realized a city can't function with 400k people constantly robbing each other, and it's probably just a place people live and try to get by, like anywhere else. Living there for 7 years confirmed as much