and yet.. another Akron question

[SquareBetterThanAll]

Originally Posted by CityGrrl77

Maybe I'm naive to it or I live on the good side of Highland Square but I've walked home with friends on several occasions from Annabelle's after they have closed and I've thankfully never experienced anything unpleasant nor have I ever come home to anything having been stolen from my apartment. Neither has anyone I've known that lives in the area. I have never once felt unsafe in HS - day or late night.

Maybe I just don't look like a target, I don't know, but it's kind of disturbing to me that people label the Square as being unsafe and unruly. (htlong Im not necessarily saying you have - this is just things I hear over and over again from some people). Minus the whole grocery store fiasco...I think that it's a great neighborhood. And the rowdy kids you may find at the library...first of all, they are kids - secondly, you will find that anywhere - not just the Square.

I think that's the point - very few people actually have anything bad happen to them. Case in point, if Akron has 20 murders a year and 200,000 residents (not even counting people working or shopping or visiting) your chances of getting killed are 1/10th of 1%. Assume you don't do or sell drugs and your chances probably drop into the hundredths or thousandths of a percent.

Anyway, my point is given the thousands of people who pass thru the neighborhood regularly, if even a handful get robbed or have some other unfortunate thing happen, any given person's chances are very, very slim to *anything* negative happen.

So while I would prefer than nothing bad happen, its still so unlikely that it is ridiculously overblown when people talk about it being "bad".