I've done it. I've moved into San Francisco proper. I'm in kind of a bad area but that's ok because I apparently have some good luck aura around me that repells all bad street experiences
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People were like "oh yeah that general area is fine, just stay away from these few intersections"
This was like, a day after I'd put down the deposit. Ofc I live at one of those intersections.
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While obviously I may have some privileges in terms of safety, if it makes you feel any better I've done a significant amount of walking all over SF alone at night and have not yet had a notably bad experience.
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I grew up in a really "bad" neighbourhood statistically, but nothing very bad ever happened to me. I imagine the reality is unless you run specifically in shitty circles, it's unlikely anything particularly bad will happen to you.
Even "rough" people tend to be nice if you are.
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When I moved to my current flat (in London) a posh friend of mine who works in real estate told me "are you crazy? That's the deepest darkest underbelly of South London!". Within a year I discovered that Boris Johnson lived a few doors down the road and my landing neighbour was
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I was a Mormon missionary in south-Texas. In a town called Zapata, we knocked EVERY DOOR in the town. Finally, we resulted to asking for referrals. ”Who do you know that needs Jesus?”
Answer: I don't know. But! Stay away from [part of town].
Yeah... That is where we lived.
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I was gonna like this post for sympathy but it had 69 likes and I can't be the one to ruin that.