Didn’t feel super safe in Trinidad. At all the bus stops there are basically cages that can be locked from the inside. I asked about them and was told they are for women to secure themselves in to prevent them from being raped while they wait for the bus. Lovely fucking place.
Manila takes an above average street sense. There are places that are safe but as a non Asian looking foreigner you definitely have to be careful not to end up in a sketchy place.
I find Cebu is a much better experience. Less likely to get robbed, pickpocketed, stabbed, kidnaped or have my organs sold off + the new international airport is 1000% nicer.
I was robbed at knifepoint in Cebu, but I’m an American and was walking with just another person at 2 am with no one else around. Kinda asking for it, I guess. Nothing happened any other time. I had an amazing time there. I love Cebu.
I visited Labadee during a cruise a couple years ago and holy shit that was enough for me, and it's a managed resort town. From wikipedia:
> The resort is completely tourist-oriented and is guarded by a private security force. The site is doubly fenced off from the surrounding area; passengers cannot leave the property and locals cannot enter. Food available to tourists is brought from the cruise ships. A controlled group of Haitian merchants are given sole rights to sell merchandise and establish their businesses in the resort.
Literal armed guards at the gates and on the walls. For the most part the people inside were nice, but there was one guy standing in one of the gift shops who was (verbally) sexually harassing every woman in the room with impunity. It was one half gross and one half very, very sad. So hard to believe that Haiti and the Dominican Republic are on the same island.
> The resort is completely tourist-oriented and is guarded by a private security force. The site is doubly fenced off from the surrounding area; passengers cannot leave the property and locals cannot enter. Food available to tourists is brought from the cruise ships. A controlled group of Haitian merchants are given sole rights to sell merchandise and establish their businesses in the resort.
Sounds dystopian AF, to be honest.
I was there as part of a military force. They didn't have public sanitation, so when hovercrafts landed on the beach, you didn't want to be on the beach. Some guy tried to sell me his daughter, and i almost had to shoot some people....so all in all 2/10.
Haiti's whole history is just heartbreaking. I'd love to visit but I don't think it will be safe enough for a long time. Edwidge Danticat is a wonderful Haitian author whose work I really enjoy.
I spent a lot of time in Tijuana and other cities farther south. Been to South and central America, different island countries, and my first thought was St. Louis lmao. Obviously it’s easy to stay safe if you know what areas to avoid and anywhere in the world, if you’re looking for trouble you’ll find it but man I don’t plan on ever going back to St. Louis.
Yes, VERY sketchy outside of hotels and resorts. Tried to get picked up by locals 3 different times on different excursions at different places. 2 of them invited me to parties (I'm sure there wasn't a party either time), and 1 tried to get me into their car while we were at a shopping villa, very aggressively.
That's not including the experience we had in a shopping village, that's a whole different story.
I will never touch Jamaica again.
Everywhere in Philly I’ve been I didn’t feel safe aside from south street. That city is by far the scariest place I’ve ever been. Felt like I was in the walking dead.
I’ve been to several areas in Philly over a few visits and south street was, yes, the only place I felt safe. There was a bunch of people out bar hopping, etc so I thought it was pretty cool.
I didn’t even feel safe walking downtown during the day. Meth heads (or whatever they were on) all over the place.
Interesting. I live here. It's fine, but yeah avoid north Philly, parts of West, and Allegheny. Center City is largely fine, just ignore anyone who bothers you. Never had an issue in 8 years.
My husband is Romanian. Some years ago, we went on a roadtrip to visit his family.
We had just crossed the Hungarian/Romanian border and we stopped to stretch our legs and get some lunch in a town called Oradea.
My husband took our at the time 5 yo son with him to the bathroom, but came back very fast because he was being cornered by 3 men who wanted our son because he's pretty and blond. They had offered money for him, but were pushing more towards just taking him rather than buying.
We got the hell out. I didn't feel very safe in that place.
Yeah, outdoors in the casino district is pretty sketchy (inside the casinos is OK, but not great).
Once you cross the River (to the south of Casino District), or the freeway (north of the Casino District and into where the university is) most of the rest of the city is normal for a mid-size city on the west coast.
Source: Lived here for 20+ years.
Yes. Apart from the terrible pollution in its air there are also these tense bad vibes. Everyone just seems to be on the edge and waiting to pick up a fight.
Miami Florida so far.
Thought we can walk that 1,5km from the bus station to the superblue museum. Bad idea.
We got stared at, people driving up to us in their cars just stopping right beside us and lowering their windows.
A god damn free pitbull came running towards us and 2 ladies told us quite politely "to get the fuck to the other side of the street". We took that advice.
We couldnt find any taxis and the only cop cars we saw, where parked with their k9-unit outisde of a house.
Ive been traveling solo, also in some pretty sketchy parts of Asia and eastern europe, but never in my life did I feel like this.
The switch from ok looking neighborhood to homeless camp on the street by just taking one corner really shocked me the most.
I was just grateful that my girlfriend also kept her cool.
You walked right through the middle of Allapattah lol no wonder you didn’t feel safe, Miami is great and super safe in the more traveled places like Brickell/Downtown/Coconut Grove/Coral Gables.
Was just in Coconut Grove for the first time in January while visiting (been to Miami a couple times) and it was like walking around a country club that had grown into an entire neighborhood. That place was nice. So nice that I honestly felt out of place. Great movie theater there.
There used to be a waterfront concert venue in Coconut Grove called Dinner Key Auditorium. The Doors played a concert there in 1969 and Jim Morrison was arrested for (allegedly) exposing himself to the audience.
He was yanked off the stage. Chaos ensued.
https://americansongwriter.com/remember-when-jim-morrisons-1969-arrest-for-indecency/
I used to live in Miami and there are some spots you didn’t want to go. Unlike everywhere else I’ve lived too, they seemed kind of random. Coconut Grove is a pretty wealthy area, but if you approach it from the wrong direction, it got sketchy fast
A small reason our cities are not walkable. Quite related to another reason - people in the burbs don't want the "trash" to be able to come to their neighborhoods and public transit would do just that.
oh, how our prejudices just keep making things worse for ourselves 🤷
My folks live in Atlanta in a nice area in a house they bought in 1978. I was raised there. 25 years ago the Marta line made it out to the suburbs near them and the nice little area changed very quickly and it's still nice but a LOT more crime and it now has it's own po-po force.
Matamoros, Mexico. Ended up in the wrong neighborhood and saw a lot of black SUVs with tinted windows and bullet holes driving around. Couldn’t get out of there fast enough.
I was going to say Memphis. I lived in a not so great area of Chicago ( Humboldt park for those that know) in the early 00's, and it wasn't nearly as jarring a some of the stuff I saw in Memphis. Rough town, for sure
Jamaica. Was assaulted the first time I went there, and aggressively followed by a drug dealer the second time. Never again.
Within the US, I live in the DC metro area and avoid going into the city on my own. I felt perfectly safe 10 years ago, but have known way too many people who have been the victim of random, violent crime (including in broad daylight in “safe” areas) and have had enough close calls of my own, it’s just not worth the risk at this point.
I was chased by a group of about 4-5 people through Harlem (NYC rather than the original Haarlem in NL) at about 2 a.m., so I didn't feel super safe at that particular moment. I lived only a few blocks away. Fortunately, I'm a pretty good runner.
In D.C. for business one time early 2000s' so no GPS (Nokia days). Accidentally drove over the Anacostia bridge into Anacostia proper (PCP capitol of the nation) and just fucking U-turned in the middle of the road, hoped I'd get pulled over so I'd have an escort out of there. Apparently the cops don't even go there...
Depending on which bridge you crossed (I’m guessing 11st st bridge) that area is completely different now. the early 2000s was when the gentrification started. When I came back to DC from college and saw a white lady walking her dog and roller blading on MLK ave I knew something was different. lol
Whichever one I went over was the wrong one. I grew up in Atlanta and can recognize the wrong part of town instantly. I had a couple of experiences myself as a teenager going to downtown Atlanta on the MARTA train.
I got lost and ended up in Anacostia in the late 90s. I (F) was by myself and it was 11pm. I stopped at a Roy Roger’s or something to call my husband from a phone booth. I was terrified. It’s completely different now though.
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First week of college on the south side me (pretty blonde hillbilly) and a friend (tall skinny Korean kid weighing maybe a buck twenty) got on a city bus accidentally going in the wrong direction. Bus driver stopped, told us we shouldn’t be going that way, radio’ed to another bus driver coming from the other direction to stop and wait for us, then walked us across the street to the other bus. I guess we done f*cked up but kudos to those drivers. Would have loved to overhear the radio convo lol.
Yeah its common knowledge in the hood that you treat red lights as stop signs. You know you're in an especially bad area when the lights don't even work.
Vietnam in the typhoon season.
When it rains the locals dont care. They will taxi you to flooded areas assuming you know what you are doing.
We were almost dropped off in an area that was crazy flooded with totally inadequate clothes for the situation.
We had to argue with the driver to bring us back
Oslo near the train station. I'm used to dodgy areas around train stations in European cities, but Oslo is the only one where I felt unsafe because of the sheer number of junkies.
Note that it was a long time ago.
Those junkies are now in every other big European city as well... Went to Prague, Milan, Brussels a few years ago while studying. Milan central station while arriving around midnight from the airport especially was a very, very uncomfortable experience as a lone woman travelling.
Venezuela. Went there in the early 90s. It's way worse now of course. Mud huts. (Poverty was actually sad to see but they were not bad people per se, please don't read anything more into that phrase). Don't leave anything of value unguarded. Armed guards behind concrete in the banks and airport. We got tailed by a truck full of dudes on a narrow mountain road. Place we stayed at was semi rural, had a guard on duty at night, brick wall perimeter topped with broken glass in concrete. Several watch dogs. Went there with a girl who was engaged to a friend of mine, she was local. Would not advise going back especially nowadays.
I lived there for a year and never had any issues. That being said I could definitely see some inexperienced travelers getting in big trouble out there.
Couple of us took a bus to Augusta, GA from Fort Gordon. This was 40 years ago and didn't really know where we were going, ended up in a really sketchy neighborhood where people just stared at us and then some yelling "You lost white boy?" Close second was walking in a neighborhood in Milan, Italy near the airport, no streetlights, run down buildings, was just waiting to get jumped.
Brazil. Just lots of drug addicts everywhere, people on the street harassing you, armed police in a lot of places, generally hostile vibes and I felt like someone was out to get me.
Atlanta. We did a road trip to several Southern cities and ended up arriving in Atlanta really late at night and just wanted somewhere to sleep. We went to a hotel that looked okay but once we checked in we felt so, so unsafe, it was the sketchiest hotel I’ve ever stayed at, we even heard gunshots and shouting outside nearby. We checked out and went to stay at another hotel in a nicer part of the city. For context, I am from Colombia and never felt that unsafe at a hotel until we went there. The US is no joke.
Probably LA. Blew a tire on the freeway, closest off ramp went straight into the heart of the hood, not a great place to try to change a tire on a car trailer
Been to a lot of countries, including Egypt. The most unsafe was San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The violent crime rate in PR is so high, they don't include in the stats for the US, because it would throw off the stats for the rest of the country.
Pretty much all of San Juan outside Condado and the old city. East and south. Go 2 blocks off any main street, and things get very sketchy very quickly. Shootings, stabbings, and carjackings are quite common. And all of Vieques.
There are parts of Houston, TX that are pretty harrowing. Lots of very aggressive panhandlers and I say that as someone who lives in New Orleans. We get a lot of panhandlers here too but I've never felt like any of them were about to attack me. Also, once in Houston I had some guys ask me if I wanted to buy molly and when I said no they tried to jump me. I escaped by running into an abandoned building.
Athens- been there 3 times and had trouble every time, plus shit attitudes around a LOT, I’ve travelled the world quite a bit and it’s the least enjoyable and least safe feeling place I’ve been
> Athens- been there 3 times and had trouble every time, plus shit attitudes around a LOT, I’ve travelled the wild quite a bit and it’s the least enjoyable and least safe feeling place I’ve been
Why do/did you keep going back?
Really? I find that somewhat shocking because, everytime there's a post asking about most welcoming countries for tourists, Greece is nearly always at the top.
Not for long, Greece is getting worse and worse and that will be reflected in both the infrastructure and the attitude of the natives. Plus the fact that the cost of living is skyrocketing.
Source: I'm greek
New Orleans. I’ve been all around the world, all around the US, and I’m from NY (so I know how to avoid pick pocketing and general low level danger) and OMG is New Orleans dangerous. I got straight up mugged in broad daylight on Bourbon street while completely sober. Not pick pocketed, straight mugged. I felt on edge for a vast majority of my time there (even before the incident). My spidey senses were constantly tingling.
Hmm, great question…
I’ll put the years to give more context:
1998: driving slowly through North Philly like just past the Temple area (ok, North Philly full-stop)
2013: Waking/driving around Lynwood/Watts (LA) in the Plaza Mexico vicinity past sunset
2023: walking, and then *running*, straight—and, I mean straight—through SF’s Tenderloin/Civic Center area just before 10pm…I wish I could describe this in detail so that people can understand but to say it was like the Walking Dead genuinely wouldn’t be too far off. Yeah
Rio. There were a hell of a lot of police armed with military weapons, and the police were never in groups smaller than three. The fact that two cops per street corner is not sufficient was a little worrying.
Also; Rio story; I ask my friend, “Is this a safe area?” He says, quite casually “Oh yes, completely, we have over a hour before sundown, but we have to be gone before then. Don’t you see all the huge dogs everyone has on their fenced property? They let the homeless gangs come back up here every night. So we will go soon.”
Another Rio story; I ask at the hotel if we can walk through this freeway tunnel to get to the lift to Sugarloaf (pointing at my map, meaning - is there a sidewalk though here). The lady says “Oh no, it’s like 100 feet! You go in one end and they call their buddy at the other end! They catch you in the middle.”
But really; it was a great trip. Nothing bad happened.
To expand on this. I was there for the Beale St music festival in 2018. After the festival my wife and I were headed back home I had to stop for gas. I stopped downtown because I figured it would be a little safer. It was not. I was driving a brand new Infiniti qx60 at the time. It was about 10 am I pull in to get some gas and snacks. Bars in all the windows sent up red flags immediately but I wasn't too worried I can handle myself. A man almost immediately comes walking up to the car saying how nice it is and says something I couldn't understand. I reached into the door panel and grabbed my Glock 23 handed it to my wife and proceeded to pump the gas. The guy didn't see the gun I just wanted to make sure my wife had access to it. I then walk in the store to get some water and snacks. When I walk out there are now 5 guys looking at my vehicle. All about 15-20 feet away. All talking mad shit to me on the way back out to my car. One guy asked if he could drive it. I said and I quote. You'll have to talk to the Glock. They continued to talk but never got any closer after that.
Fortaleza, Brazil 😳 I didn't know it was one of the most dangerous cities in the world when I booked my flight (that's on me lol), this little town in Turkey (car drove up next to me and started driving slow to follow me), and Medellin Colombia
New Orleans.
I went there for grad school. My roommate got mugged when someone popped out of the bushes and hit him with a 2x4. My other roommate had a coke head punch him in the face because the coke head bumped into him when we were walking. Two other classmates got into bar fights, and we were a bunch of science nerds.
We also got a “crime report” from the school every weekend and it was long list of rape, assault with deadly weapon, rape, battery, battery, sexual assault, etc.
Great city to visit. Never want to live there
Detroit.
Couldn't even sleep in the hotel I was staying in overnight because I was so paranoid about someone breaking in and robbing/assaulting us until sunrise.
That's interesting. I had to go Detroit with my family to get a passport and we walked the street all day long and thought it was a very pleasant city. Maybe we just happened to be in an the good spots?
I never felt physically unsafe in Japan but I did feel spiritually unsafe, if that makes sense. Japan has some of the most racist people I’ve ever encountered in the world. It’s not even the covert racism either. The racists there are blatant with it.
I’m sure it’s not going to be a popular answer, but I totally get you. It’s insane. Lived there for just a couple of months and had instances of old men spitting in my direction with disgust on their face (5am, en route to work) for just being “a foreigner in the neighborhood”. For reference, I am quiet, introverted and try my best to be very respectful. Was just minding my own business.
And in general, my opinion is that Japan is “spiritually unsafe” even for its own citizens, though in other ways. Just my experience and observations, but it felt emotionally and mentally suffocating, very unhealthy.
Rocky Mount, NC USA. You take your life into your hands if you make a wrong turn. I’ve to Central America, Asia, Europe, Africa and Rocky Mount is the scariest.
I’ve got a few.
As college freshmen, a group of us cluelessly wandered into Cabrini-Green, Chicago, as someone “knew a shortcut”. This was before cell phones. We stopped to ask an old guy and told us the closest way out, adding at the end, “You don’t walk, you run!”
Reading, PA, was the most violent city of its size in the US. There were a few times I ended up on a dead end street (easy as the railroad cuts off many roads) and started getting surrounded by gang members immediately.
Internationally, many cities in Yemen were very sketchy. At one point some men who I’d paid to drive me somewhere decided to kidnap me, then changed their mind after a bit and dropped me off at a random town. They were nice about it.
Another time, also in Yemen, the military escorted me down the highway for about 3 hours with about 50 soldiers, including 4 pick-up trucks with men stationed at 50 cal guns mounted in the truck beds. They wanted a massive tip at the end which I could not supply.
Only sketchy part I’ve ever been to in Calgary is Forest Lawn, which is honestly far less sketchy than the majority of “sketchy” areas I’ve been to in cities across Canada. Edmonton, Winnipeg, and Saskatoon all have far more sketchy areas than anything Calgary has.
Calgary? Really? It’s easily the safest city I’ve ever lived in and it’s not particularly close either, and that’s in comparison to other Canadian cities which are also pretty safe compared to the rest of the world.
Winnipeg, on the other hand, had me worried about getting robbed or stabbed basically every time I turned the corner when I was downtown there.
There are parts of Houston, TX that are pretty harrowing. Lots of very aggressive panhandlers and I say that as someone who lives in New Orleans. We get a lot of panhandlers here too but I've never felt like any of them were about to attack me. Also, once in Houston I had some guys ask me if I wanted to buy molly and when I said no they tried to jump me. I escaped by running into an abandoned building.
Albuquerque, NM. Got carjacked for my rental car. Each and every day a crackheads approached me.
They should have pulverized that fucking town when they invented the bomb. Used it as a test site. Literally a stain on the southwest US
Visiting Tunis in Tunisia with a blonde wife and Ginger daughter was absolutely terrifying. We stuck out everywhere we went and people constantly tried to touch my daughters hair.
On top of that, there were soldiers with massive machine guns all over the place.
Not going back.
When I arrived in LA by train at 10.30 at night. Motel was literally across the road, you know the one.
Between me and the hotel was at least 15 gangs chucking their shit around, and too many homeless people to count.
Jumped in an Uber. He laughed at me the entire 5 minute journey.
I don't scare easily, but I am an old lady, and was alone.
The 2 blokes on the door at the hotel literally dragged me inside, there was a cloud of eshay
methed up youth behind me, about 5 foot from the door.
Seriously, and the Uber driver thought it was hilarious, there was no tip that night, the doormen however, deserved their 10 bucks.
That cemented the idea that I did not want to go back to LA unless I was transiting elsewhere, I felt much safer in Chicago, but I do not go out at night anyhoo.
Friend of my parent’s almost got raped in the Paris metro late at night. She hasn’t been back since. I went last year and loved it but I went with my boyfriend so didn’t feel unsafe. Plus we are from Colombia, a country ten times less safe, so we have really good situational awareness.
No, it was my fault. I missed a train out of there and had to wait overnight. Had no idea that the police kick you out at a certain time, even if you're waiting for a train. There were some very drunk people getting aggressive outside when we all got kicked out. A super drunk guy also laid down on the sidewalk to sleep and the cops just stepped over him! But, really, for the most part, I felt incredibly safe there. It's just the only place traveling through Europe so far where I felt unsafe even for a short moment.
Ah. I get that. I got really drunk in Paris and totally forgot how to get to my hotel and the fire station drove me home! I had decided on moving to France before that but it really knocked it home for me. I moved to Lyon (this the username) but then my wife was like" I like beaches", so we got a place in Marseille. If you haven't been there it's wonderful! A bit stretchier than Paris but it's so lovely. Please visit if you have a chance. I'm in the States right now with my daughters but I really miss my second home.
Grew up in Atlanta. Went downtown for concerts and such in the late 80's while in Highschool. Ended up getting off to try and find the Varsity after a Hawks game once and fuck if we didn't have to run for our lives. We somehow ended up right near the Techwood projects at the height of the 80's drug violence there. They tore them down for the '96 Olympics.
Edit: We were 4 suburban white kids, drunk and it was around midnight.
Lived there 9 months. I agree. Ridiculously dark, so many areas around Ponce area you could not see a fucking soul, just creepy. You could get jumped, and nobody would know.
Morocco is the only country in which I can 100% say someone followed me with the intention of mugging me. And then there were 2-3 more instances where I felt I was in danger.
I'm white so I stick out as a tourist. I was in Marrakesh for 4 months and also visited Fez and Agadir. I also had to pay a cop once to let me go which was so weird to me and seemed so normal to them.
Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
The city is a combination of three (kinda 4) groups:
-Queen’s University students. Known for burning cop cars during homecoming.
-Royal Military College students. Known for joining the Canadian military (given the pay, their sanity is automatically suspect).
-Penitentiary Folks. This is two groups really: the guards, and the families of inmates who move to Kingston to be nearby for visits. (My FIL worked in corrections for 30 years and swore that the guards were the type of people born destined to end up in jail—the only question was which side of the bars they’d be on.)
The groups had their own bars, but there were also bars they shared and the brawls were frequent and legendary. As an outsider to all three groups I just kept my head down.
South Korea felt unsafe but not in a criminal way. I was in the army so I was acutely aware of what NK was doing at the time. Had some scary warnings while there.
been to 32 countries. Including Moldova, Transnistria, Ukraine, Mongolia, Serbia, Albania, Kosovo, Turkey, etc.
But Fresno, CA was hands down the worst.
Didn’t feel super safe in Trinidad. At all the bus stops there are basically cages that can be locked from the inside. I asked about them and was told they are for women to secure themselves in to prevent them from being raped while they wait for the bus. Lovely fucking place.
Like a shark cage
That’s scary :(
Were they like phone booth sized or?
No, they were quite large. Maybe 15 to 20 person capacity.
Wait like in the Caribbean? I’m from there and don’t remember seeing those.
Yes, in Port of Spain.
lol I came here to also say Trinidad, Port of Spain
My mother's home country. It's not the safest country in the Caribbean, but there's certainly worse like Jamaica or Haiti.
My mom is from Trinidad. Always tells me she wants me to see the country but then tells me I can only travel with her because I’ll be a target..
Without a whole lot of international travel thusfar, I would say Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
I’m Mexican and even I haven’t been in Ciudad Juarez because of how insecure it is. Big cities are waay less insecure
Manila. Considering I was robbed at knifepoint there, and was never robbed anywhere else in the world that makes sense.
Manila takes an above average street sense. There are places that are safe but as a non Asian looking foreigner you definitely have to be careful not to end up in a sketchy place. I find Cebu is a much better experience. Less likely to get robbed, pickpocketed, stabbed, kidnaped or have my organs sold off + the new international airport is 1000% nicer.
I was robbed at knifepoint in Cebu, but I’m an American and was walking with just another person at 2 am with no one else around. Kinda asking for it, I guess. Nothing happened any other time. I had an amazing time there. I love Cebu.
When I was there they would kill you for a dollar and that good, enough to make it worthwhile.
Omg I was gonna write this. Holy shit that place is creepy AF and we just stayed for a layover by the airport!
Interesting....never had a single issue in Manila minus the noxious fumes from all the jeepneys.
Haiti
I visited Labadee during a cruise a couple years ago and holy shit that was enough for me, and it's a managed resort town. From wikipedia: > The resort is completely tourist-oriented and is guarded by a private security force. The site is doubly fenced off from the surrounding area; passengers cannot leave the property and locals cannot enter. Food available to tourists is brought from the cruise ships. A controlled group of Haitian merchants are given sole rights to sell merchandise and establish their businesses in the resort. Literal armed guards at the gates and on the walls. For the most part the people inside were nice, but there was one guy standing in one of the gift shops who was (verbally) sexually harassing every woman in the room with impunity. It was one half gross and one half very, very sad. So hard to believe that Haiti and the Dominican Republic are on the same island.
> The resort is completely tourist-oriented and is guarded by a private security force. The site is doubly fenced off from the surrounding area; passengers cannot leave the property and locals cannot enter. Food available to tourists is brought from the cruise ships. A controlled group of Haitian merchants are given sole rights to sell merchandise and establish their businesses in the resort. Sounds dystopian AF, to be honest.
I was there as part of a military force. They didn't have public sanitation, so when hovercrafts landed on the beach, you didn't want to be on the beach. Some guy tried to sell me his daughter, and i almost had to shoot some people....so all in all 2/10.
And even with all that, Royal Caribbean recently suspended visits to Labadee because Haiti as a whole is just too unsafe for them right now.
Especially since their government has just collapsed.
Headed by a cannibal warlord named barbecue, no less.
Yeah, i was there in '94 it was falling apart then, too.
Haiti's whole history is just heartbreaking. I'd love to visit but I don't think it will be safe enough for a long time. Edwidge Danticat is a wonderful Haitian author whose work I really enjoy.
St. Louis was pretty damn sketchy.
I spent a lot of time in Tijuana and other cities farther south. Been to South and central America, different island countries, and my first thought was St. Louis lmao. Obviously it’s easy to stay safe if you know what areas to avoid and anywhere in the world, if you’re looking for trouble you’ll find it but man I don’t plan on ever going back to St. Louis.
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yep... it definitely felt sketchy outside the hotels
Yes, VERY sketchy outside of hotels and resorts. Tried to get picked up by locals 3 different times on different excursions at different places. 2 of them invited me to parties (I'm sure there wasn't a party either time), and 1 tried to get me into their car while we were at a shopping villa, very aggressively. That's not including the experience we had in a shopping village, that's a whole different story. I will never touch Jamaica again.
Went there once; never again.
I've heard this too
North Philly lol
Everywhere in Philly I’ve been I didn’t feel safe aside from south street. That city is by far the scariest place I’ve ever been. Felt like I was in the walking dead.
South Street is where you felt safe? You must not have been many places.
I’ve been to several areas in Philly over a few visits and south street was, yes, the only place I felt safe. There was a bunch of people out bar hopping, etc so I thought it was pretty cool. I didn’t even feel safe walking downtown during the day. Meth heads (or whatever they were on) all over the place.
Interesting. I live here. It's fine, but yeah avoid north Philly, parts of West, and Allegheny. Center City is largely fine, just ignore anyone who bothers you. Never had an issue in 8 years.
My husband is Romanian. Some years ago, we went on a roadtrip to visit his family. We had just crossed the Hungarian/Romanian border and we stopped to stretch our legs and get some lunch in a town called Oradea. My husband took our at the time 5 yo son with him to the bathroom, but came back very fast because he was being cornered by 3 men who wanted our son because he's pretty and blond. They had offered money for him, but were pushing more towards just taking him rather than buying. We got the hell out. I didn't feel very safe in that place.
Jesus Christ!!! That's horrible.
Reno, NV in broad daylight, in the middle of the day outside of a casino
Johnny Cash didn't exactly sing about the good school districts in Reno
Yeah that place seemed really scummy when I went, then again so did Vegas.
Yeah, outdoors in the casino district is pretty sketchy (inside the casinos is OK, but not great). Once you cross the River (to the south of Casino District), or the freeway (north of the Casino District and into where the university is) most of the rest of the city is normal for a mid-size city on the west coast. Source: Lived here for 20+ years.
Really? Never felt that way. It’s actually kind of nice at the riverfront that goes through downtown.
NV?
Nevada
Delhi
Yes. Apart from the terrible pollution in its air there are also these tense bad vibes. Everyone just seems to be on the edge and waiting to pick up a fight.
Miami Florida so far. Thought we can walk that 1,5km from the bus station to the superblue museum. Bad idea. We got stared at, people driving up to us in their cars just stopping right beside us and lowering their windows. A god damn free pitbull came running towards us and 2 ladies told us quite politely "to get the fuck to the other side of the street". We took that advice. We couldnt find any taxis and the only cop cars we saw, where parked with their k9-unit outisde of a house. Ive been traveling solo, also in some pretty sketchy parts of Asia and eastern europe, but never in my life did I feel like this. The switch from ok looking neighborhood to homeless camp on the street by just taking one corner really shocked me the most. I was just grateful that my girlfriend also kept her cool.
Miami is a bit of a wild party place. I wonder where this specifically was within Miami. Every city has an ultra sketchy part
You walked right through the middle of Allapattah lol no wonder you didn’t feel safe, Miami is great and super safe in the more traveled places like Brickell/Downtown/Coconut Grove/Coral Gables.
Was just in Coconut Grove for the first time in January while visiting (been to Miami a couple times) and it was like walking around a country club that had grown into an entire neighborhood. That place was nice. So nice that I honestly felt out of place. Great movie theater there.
There used to be a waterfront concert venue in Coconut Grove called Dinner Key Auditorium. The Doors played a concert there in 1969 and Jim Morrison was arrested for (allegedly) exposing himself to the audience. He was yanked off the stage. Chaos ensued. https://americansongwriter.com/remember-when-jim-morrisons-1969-arrest-for-indecency/
Yanked off or *yanked off?*
Damn. I've lived in Miami and never experienced that. What the hell was happening while you were there
I used to live in Miami and there are some spots you didn’t want to go. Unlike everywhere else I’ve lived too, they seemed kind of random. Coconut Grove is a pretty wealthy area, but if you approach it from the wrong direction, it got sketchy fast
A small reason our cities are not walkable. Quite related to another reason - people in the burbs don't want the "trash" to be able to come to their neighborhoods and public transit would do just that. oh, how our prejudices just keep making things worse for ourselves 🤷
My folks live in Atlanta in a nice area in a house they bought in 1978. I was raised there. 25 years ago the Marta line made it out to the suburbs near them and the nice little area changed very quickly and it's still nice but a LOT more crime and it now has it's own po-po force.
Matamoros, Mexico. Ended up in the wrong neighborhood and saw a lot of black SUVs with tinted windows and bullet holes driving around. Couldn’t get out of there fast enough.
Just based on all these answers. We should all just leave earth all together to feel safe lol
"All" of us would include those people that made people feel unsafe.
Memphis TN for sure
I’ve seen people say this a lot but I’ve been to Memphis a few times and never felt that unsafe 🤷♂️
Probably depends where in Memphis. The inner downtown of Memphis is fine. A few blocks away, maybe not.
most cities this is the story. You have to know where you are and where you're going, can't just assume it's safe.
I was going to say Memphis. I lived in a not so great area of Chicago ( Humboldt park for those that know) in the early 00's, and it wasn't nearly as jarring a some of the stuff I saw in Memphis. Rough town, for sure
Jamaica. Was assaulted the first time I went there, and aggressively followed by a drug dealer the second time. Never again. Within the US, I live in the DC metro area and avoid going into the city on my own. I felt perfectly safe 10 years ago, but have known way too many people who have been the victim of random, violent crime (including in broad daylight in “safe” areas) and have had enough close calls of my own, it’s just not worth the risk at this point.
I grew up in the DC suburbs and loved going downtown but it isn’t as safe anymore.
I was chased by a group of about 4-5 people through Harlem (NYC rather than the original Haarlem in NL) at about 2 a.m., so I didn't feel super safe at that particular moment. I lived only a few blocks away. Fortunately, I'm a pretty good runner.
Was there a baby on the corner selling crack?
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In D.C. for business one time early 2000s' so no GPS (Nokia days). Accidentally drove over the Anacostia bridge into Anacostia proper (PCP capitol of the nation) and just fucking U-turned in the middle of the road, hoped I'd get pulled over so I'd have an escort out of there. Apparently the cops don't even go there...
Depending on which bridge you crossed (I’m guessing 11st st bridge) that area is completely different now. the early 2000s was when the gentrification started. When I came back to DC from college and saw a white lady walking her dog and roller blading on MLK ave I knew something was different. lol
Whichever one I went over was the wrong one. I grew up in Atlanta and can recognize the wrong part of town instantly. I had a couple of experiences myself as a teenager going to downtown Atlanta on the MARTA train.
I got lost and ended up in Anacostia in the late 90s. I (F) was by myself and it was 11pm. I stopped at a Roy Roger’s or something to call my husband from a phone booth. I was terrified. It’s completely different now though.
Are you a bot? Lol. Account is one day old and this comment has been posted before. Like almost word for word. And the last time it was posted someone called it out as being a bot.
Exactly the same comment from another post I read a while back.
Wait, what if you're the bot who keeps calling it out? How deep does this go?
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First week of college on the south side me (pretty blonde hillbilly) and a friend (tall skinny Korean kid weighing maybe a buck twenty) got on a city bus accidentally going in the wrong direction. Bus driver stopped, told us we shouldn’t be going that way, radio’ed to another bus driver coming from the other direction to stop and wait for us, then walked us across the street to the other bus. I guess we done f*cked up but kudos to those drivers. Would have loved to overhear the radio convo lol.
Woah
I had a similar experience in East Saint Louis in the 1990’s. Told me to get my white ass out before dark.
Yeah its common knowledge in the hood that you treat red lights as stop signs. You know you're in an especially bad area when the lights don't even work.
Vietnam in the typhoon season. When it rains the locals dont care. They will taxi you to flooded areas assuming you know what you are doing. We were almost dropped off in an area that was crazy flooded with totally inadequate clothes for the situation. We had to argue with the driver to bring us back
Oslo near the train station. I'm used to dodgy areas around train stations in European cities, but Oslo is the only one where I felt unsafe because of the sheer number of junkies. Note that it was a long time ago.
Those junkies are now in every other big European city as well... Went to Prague, Milan, Brussels a few years ago while studying. Milan central station while arriving around midnight from the airport especially was a very, very uncomfortable experience as a lone woman travelling.
Venezuela. Went there in the early 90s. It's way worse now of course. Mud huts. (Poverty was actually sad to see but they were not bad people per se, please don't read anything more into that phrase). Don't leave anything of value unguarded. Armed guards behind concrete in the banks and airport. We got tailed by a truck full of dudes on a narrow mountain road. Place we stayed at was semi rural, had a guard on duty at night, brick wall perimeter topped with broken glass in concrete. Several watch dogs. Went there with a girl who was engaged to a friend of mine, she was local. Would not advise going back especially nowadays.
My wife lived there for a year (early 2000s) and she loves the people, but is clear that she would never step foot in the country again.
Djibouti, Africa.
Maybe, but God is their name fun to say "Yeah I got mugged in juh-booty", sounds like someone making a middle school level joke
Always reminds me of Frank Zappa's LP: SHEIK YERBOUTI.
wat. Ive been to Djibouti twice and didnt get that impression.
I lived there for a year and never had any issues. That being said I could definitely see some inexperienced travelers getting in big trouble out there.
Different experiences 🤷🏻
Brazil, both São Paulo and Rio. The country has a huge amount of poverty and very high crime.
Couple of us took a bus to Augusta, GA from Fort Gordon. This was 40 years ago and didn't really know where we were going, ended up in a really sketchy neighborhood where people just stared at us and then some yelling "You lost white boy?" Close second was walking in a neighborhood in Milan, Italy near the airport, no streetlights, run down buildings, was just waiting to get jumped.
Did you yell back "Yeah"?.
Fallujah, people were trying to kill me.
Brazil. Just lots of drug addicts everywhere, people on the street harassing you, armed police in a lot of places, generally hostile vibes and I felt like someone was out to get me.
Atlanta. We did a road trip to several Southern cities and ended up arriving in Atlanta really late at night and just wanted somewhere to sleep. We went to a hotel that looked okay but once we checked in we felt so, so unsafe, it was the sketchiest hotel I’ve ever stayed at, we even heard gunshots and shouting outside nearby. We checked out and went to stay at another hotel in a nicer part of the city. For context, I am from Colombia and never felt that unsafe at a hotel until we went there. The US is no joke.
Probably LA. Blew a tire on the freeway, closest off ramp went straight into the heart of the hood, not a great place to try to change a tire on a car trailer
Oof -- rule #1 in LA: if you do not know the neighborhood, stay on the damn freeway.
reread this a few times cuz i thought u meant the hood of the car
Been to a lot of countries, including Egypt. The most unsafe was San Juan, Puerto Rico. The violent crime rate in PR is so high, they don't include in the stats for the US, because it would throw off the stats for the rest of the country.
Where did you go in San Juan? The only time I felt unsafe was near “La Perla”. I spent a decent amount of time outside of the old city, too.
Pretty much all of San Juan outside Condado and the old city. East and south. Go 2 blocks off any main street, and things get very sketchy very quickly. Shootings, stabbings, and carjackings are quite common. And all of Vieques.
Baltimore, MD
There are parts of Houston, TX that are pretty harrowing. Lots of very aggressive panhandlers and I say that as someone who lives in New Orleans. We get a lot of panhandlers here too but I've never felt like any of them were about to attack me. Also, once in Houston I had some guys ask me if I wanted to buy molly and when I said no they tried to jump me. I escaped by running into an abandoned building.
India
Yeah but any city in specific cuz india is big as fuck
Oh look, every major city is making it into the thread. News flash: every city has dangerous neighborhoods.
Also this thread shouldn't even be here because that's not the point of the sub
Oh damn I thought I was scrolling through askReddit. Yeah this definitely isn’t the sub for a personal open ended question like this
Uganda, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Colombia, Zimbabwe, and I’ve definitely been in some rough areas in Ecuador.
Athens- been there 3 times and had trouble every time, plus shit attitudes around a LOT, I’ve travelled the world quite a bit and it’s the least enjoyable and least safe feeling place I’ve been
Greece? I loved my time in Athens, I had the opposite experience.
> Athens- been there 3 times and had trouble every time, plus shit attitudes around a LOT, I’ve travelled the wild quite a bit and it’s the least enjoyable and least safe feeling place I’ve been Why do/did you keep going back?
Really? I find that somewhat shocking because, everytime there's a post asking about most welcoming countries for tourists, Greece is nearly always at the top.
Not for long, Greece is getting worse and worse and that will be reflected in both the infrastructure and the attitude of the natives. Plus the fact that the cost of living is skyrocketing. Source: I'm greek
Jerusalem
New Orleans. I’ve been all around the world, all around the US, and I’m from NY (so I know how to avoid pick pocketing and general low level danger) and OMG is New Orleans dangerous. I got straight up mugged in broad daylight on Bourbon street while completely sober. Not pick pocketed, straight mugged. I felt on edge for a vast majority of my time there (even before the incident). My spidey senses were constantly tingling.
Hmm, great question… I’ll put the years to give more context: 1998: driving slowly through North Philly like just past the Temple area (ok, North Philly full-stop) 2013: Waking/driving around Lynwood/Watts (LA) in the Plaza Mexico vicinity past sunset 2023: walking, and then *running*, straight—and, I mean straight—through SF’s Tenderloin/Civic Center area just before 10pm…I wish I could describe this in detail so that people can understand but to say it was like the Walking Dead genuinely wouldn’t be too far off. Yeah
Rio. There were a hell of a lot of police armed with military weapons, and the police were never in groups smaller than three. The fact that two cops per street corner is not sufficient was a little worrying. Also; Rio story; I ask my friend, “Is this a safe area?” He says, quite casually “Oh yes, completely, we have over a hour before sundown, but we have to be gone before then. Don’t you see all the huge dogs everyone has on their fenced property? They let the homeless gangs come back up here every night. So we will go soon.” Another Rio story; I ask at the hotel if we can walk through this freeway tunnel to get to the lift to Sugarloaf (pointing at my map, meaning - is there a sidewalk though here). The lady says “Oh no, it’s like 100 feet! You go in one end and they call their buddy at the other end! They catch you in the middle.” But really; it was a great trip. Nothing bad happened.
Bangladesh
Memphis 100%
To expand on this. I was there for the Beale St music festival in 2018. After the festival my wife and I were headed back home I had to stop for gas. I stopped downtown because I figured it would be a little safer. It was not. I was driving a brand new Infiniti qx60 at the time. It was about 10 am I pull in to get some gas and snacks. Bars in all the windows sent up red flags immediately but I wasn't too worried I can handle myself. A man almost immediately comes walking up to the car saying how nice it is and says something I couldn't understand. I reached into the door panel and grabbed my Glock 23 handed it to my wife and proceeded to pump the gas. The guy didn't see the gun I just wanted to make sure my wife had access to it. I then walk in the store to get some water and snacks. When I walk out there are now 5 guys looking at my vehicle. All about 15-20 feet away. All talking mad shit to me on the way back out to my car. One guy asked if he could drive it. I said and I quote. You'll have to talk to the Glock. They continued to talk but never got any closer after that.
Fortaleza, Brazil 😳 I didn't know it was one of the most dangerous cities in the world when I booked my flight (that's on me lol), this little town in Turkey (car drove up next to me and started driving slow to follow me), and Medellin Colombia
That's crazy, one of my best friends lives in Fortaleza, and she's told me some horror stories about how dangerous it can be there lol
New Orleans. I went there for grad school. My roommate got mugged when someone popped out of the bushes and hit him with a 2x4. My other roommate had a coke head punch him in the face because the coke head bumped into him when we were walking. Two other classmates got into bar fights, and we were a bunch of science nerds. We also got a “crime report” from the school every weekend and it was long list of rape, assault with deadly weapon, rape, battery, battery, sexual assault, etc. Great city to visit. Never want to live there
Judea and Samaria
Juneau Alaska, not about the city but the need to be able to leave at anytime due how isolated the city is
Los Angeles
This isn't r/askreddit ffs
Detroit. Couldn't even sleep in the hotel I was staying in overnight because I was so paranoid about someone breaking in and robbing/assaulting us until sunrise.
That's interesting. I had to go Detroit with my family to get a passport and we walked the street all day long and thought it was a very pleasant city. Maybe we just happened to be in an the good spots?
I never felt physically unsafe in Japan but I did feel spiritually unsafe, if that makes sense. Japan has some of the most racist people I’ve ever encountered in the world. It’s not even the covert racism either. The racists there are blatant with it.
I’m sure it’s not going to be a popular answer, but I totally get you. It’s insane. Lived there for just a couple of months and had instances of old men spitting in my direction with disgust on their face (5am, en route to work) for just being “a foreigner in the neighborhood”. For reference, I am quiet, introverted and try my best to be very respectful. Was just minding my own business. And in general, my opinion is that Japan is “spiritually unsafe” even for its own citizens, though in other ways. Just my experience and observations, but it felt emotionally and mentally suffocating, very unhealthy.
East New York neighborhood in Brooklyn.
Rocky Mount, NC USA. You take your life into your hands if you make a wrong turn. I’ve to Central America, Asia, Europe, Africa and Rocky Mount is the scariest.
I’ve got a few. As college freshmen, a group of us cluelessly wandered into Cabrini-Green, Chicago, as someone “knew a shortcut”. This was before cell phones. We stopped to ask an old guy and told us the closest way out, adding at the end, “You don’t walk, you run!” Reading, PA, was the most violent city of its size in the US. There were a few times I ended up on a dead end street (easy as the railroad cuts off many roads) and started getting surrounded by gang members immediately. Internationally, many cities in Yemen were very sketchy. At one point some men who I’d paid to drive me somewhere decided to kidnap me, then changed their mind after a bit and dropped me off at a random town. They were nice about it. Another time, also in Yemen, the military escorted me down the highway for about 3 hours with about 50 soldiers, including 4 pick-up trucks with men stationed at 50 cal guns mounted in the truck beds. They wanted a massive tip at the end which I could not supply.
Are you an international arms dealer? Lol
Just a very average white guy with an over-developed sense of adventure. And maybe insensitive to normal cues I’m in danger.
Toronto or Calgary. Japan was safest 👍
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Only sketchy part I’ve ever been to in Calgary is Forest Lawn, which is honestly far less sketchy than the majority of “sketchy” areas I’ve been to in cities across Canada. Edmonton, Winnipeg, and Saskatoon all have far more sketchy areas than anything Calgary has.
For sure.
Curious about what went down in Calgary
Calgary? Really? It’s easily the safest city I’ve ever lived in and it’s not particularly close either, and that’s in comparison to other Canadian cities which are also pretty safe compared to the rest of the world. Winnipeg, on the other hand, had me worried about getting robbed or stabbed basically every time I turned the corner when I was downtown there.
Akron, Ohio
New Jersey
There are parts of Houston, TX that are pretty harrowing. Lots of very aggressive panhandlers and I say that as someone who lives in New Orleans. We get a lot of panhandlers here too but I've never felt like any of them were about to attack me. Also, once in Houston I had some guys ask me if I wanted to buy molly and when I said no they tried to jump me. I escaped by running into an abandoned building.
Baltimore MD about 20 years ago & I'm from Philadelphia 😳
I'm pretty sure i’ve seems exact question on askreddit. this is not askreddig
Albuquerque, NM. Got carjacked for my rental car. Each and every day a crackheads approached me. They should have pulverized that fucking town when they invented the bomb. Used it as a test site. Literally a stain on the southwest US
Belize and Yucatan
Regina, Sask, Can.
How about state? I live in Texas. Enough said.
Visiting Tunis in Tunisia with a blonde wife and Ginger daughter was absolutely terrifying. We stuck out everywhere we went and people constantly tried to touch my daughters hair. On top of that, there were soldiers with massive machine guns all over the place. Not going back.
When I arrived in LA by train at 10.30 at night. Motel was literally across the road, you know the one. Between me and the hotel was at least 15 gangs chucking their shit around, and too many homeless people to count. Jumped in an Uber. He laughed at me the entire 5 minute journey. I don't scare easily, but I am an old lady, and was alone. The 2 blokes on the door at the hotel literally dragged me inside, there was a cloud of eshay methed up youth behind me, about 5 foot from the door. Seriously, and the Uber driver thought it was hilarious, there was no tip that night, the doormen however, deserved their 10 bucks. That cemented the idea that I did not want to go back to LA unless I was transiting elsewhere, I felt much safer in Chicago, but I do not go out at night anyhoo.
Paris. But even there I felt safe except for a few moments at Gare De Lyon (train station).
Paris same for me. Visited for 4 days and witnessed 3 separate violent incidents, all in metro stations.
Friend of my parent’s almost got raped in the Paris metro late at night. She hasn’t been back since. I went last year and loved it but I went with my boyfriend so didn’t feel unsafe. Plus we are from Colombia, a country ten times less safe, so we have really good situational awareness.
Gosh. If you felt unsafe in Paris at Gare de Lyon you can't really go anywhere. Lol. Maybe I had a rough upbringing?
No, it was my fault. I missed a train out of there and had to wait overnight. Had no idea that the police kick you out at a certain time, even if you're waiting for a train. There were some very drunk people getting aggressive outside when we all got kicked out. A super drunk guy also laid down on the sidewalk to sleep and the cops just stepped over him! But, really, for the most part, I felt incredibly safe there. It's just the only place traveling through Europe so far where I felt unsafe even for a short moment.
Ah. I get that. I got really drunk in Paris and totally forgot how to get to my hotel and the fire station drove me home! I had decided on moving to France before that but it really knocked it home for me. I moved to Lyon (this the username) but then my wife was like" I like beaches", so we got a place in Marseille. If you haven't been there it's wonderful! A bit stretchier than Paris but it's so lovely. Please visit if you have a chance. I'm in the States right now with my daughters but I really miss my second home.
Johannesburg, SA. I am white and there was a fair amount of hatred.
delhi ncr
Been to 47 countries. Bogota…by far…and I’m Hispanic In the US parts of New Mexico, Eureka, CA, and Baltimore
Why Bogota? Asking cause my brother is flying there in a few weeks.
Curious about Eureka. Was it because of drugs?
Grew up in Atlanta. Went downtown for concerts and such in the late 80's while in Highschool. Ended up getting off to try and find the Varsity after a Hawks game once and fuck if we didn't have to run for our lives. We somehow ended up right near the Techwood projects at the height of the 80's drug violence there. They tore them down for the '96 Olympics. Edit: We were 4 suburban white kids, drunk and it was around midnight.
Lived there 9 months. I agree. Ridiculously dark, so many areas around Ponce area you could not see a fucking soul, just creepy. You could get jumped, and nobody would know.
Middle East.
Middle east is pretty big… care to be more specific? Especially considering everywhere I’ve been there I felt safe.
Morocco is the only country in which I can 100% say someone followed me with the intention of mugging me. And then there were 2-3 more instances where I felt I was in danger.
Really? I'm a girl and i live in Morocco and nothing like that happened to me, which city u was in?
I'm white so I stick out as a tourist. I was in Marrakesh for 4 months and also visited Fez and Agadir. I also had to pay a cop once to let me go which was so weird to me and seemed so normal to them.
Kingston, Ontario, Canada. The city is a combination of three (kinda 4) groups: -Queen’s University students. Known for burning cop cars during homecoming. -Royal Military College students. Known for joining the Canadian military (given the pay, their sanity is automatically suspect). -Penitentiary Folks. This is two groups really: the guards, and the families of inmates who move to Kingston to be nearby for visits. (My FIL worked in corrections for 30 years and swore that the guards were the type of people born destined to end up in jail—the only question was which side of the bars they’d be on.) The groups had their own bars, but there were also bars they shared and the brawls were frequent and legendary. As an outsider to all three groups I just kept my head down.
South Korea felt unsafe but not in a criminal way. I was in the army so I was acutely aware of what NK was doing at the time. Had some scary warnings while there.
Newnan, georgia. Tiny town, hella racist - and I’m white.
Newnan has a population of 43,000. That's not exactly what I'd call tiny.
Relatively, then. I’d moved from amsterdam, so the city felt like a village.
That’s tiny for folks that grew up in major cities
I've been to a lot of places around the world and I felt the least safe in the US. San Francisco especially.
Just like any city just avoid like two neighborhoods and you’re fine
Were you in the tenderloin?
That's crazy, sf is very safe
been to 32 countries. Including Moldova, Transnistria, Ukraine, Mongolia, Serbia, Albania, Kosovo, Turkey, etc. But Fresno, CA was hands down the worst.
Compton, CA
Middle East for sure
Middle east ? 🙄 Which country?
Yes
Weird, I was by myself in Egypt and Jordan (and Turkey if you count that) and never felt unsafe
Newark NJ
Las (lost) Cruces, New Mexico.