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
Only tangentially related to your comment, but you made me curious about whether Guatamala City was "high" enough to qualify for the Most Dangerous City ranking.
Gotta admit, I was not expecting so many of the highest murder rates to be in Mexico. I figured a lot more of Central America would have been up in that list. Also incredibly funny that St. Louis is ranked higher than Capetown and every other brazillian city.
Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/243797/ranking-of-the-most-dangerous-cities-in-the-world-by-murder-rate-per-capita/
Yeah St. Louis is real, real bad. That place is a mess. Ferguson, the place where Michael Brown was murdered and Black Lives Matter started, is part of that metro. iirc there were more outstanding bench warrants for petty crimes and non-crimes in Ferguson than there were adults. The city was farming those people for revenues, it's disgusting. Then add all the other issues America, and especially the state of Misery/Missouri, have, and you end up with a metro like St. Louis.
Saint Louis lost like 60% of its urban population since its peak during the industrial age. So this makes sense.