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
shows clips of shoplifting
"This is why X retailer is leaving Y city!"![frothingfash frothingfash](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/97c0eab6-88fe-4105-b2ca-63846b1258f2.png)
[Six Months Later]
Retailer X closed Z stores in Y city because those stores were underperforming, as cited by their investor documents.![porky-happy porky-happy](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/b47fa3ca-2a2c-4dff-9375-62a7abb0d512.png)