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Agreed. I don't think downtowns of most cities have been any significant issue in decades. Perhaps certain neighborhoods, but not really downtowns as much.
To be all the way thorough, all the white guys work with have a “I got robbed in the wrong neighborhood stopping for gas at night” story here in Atlanta. I don’t have that issue. I stop on the west side to get gas every other night. My working idea is that if you look out of place in certain areas Atlanta, people will try you.
I’m sure the same applies in different aspect acrosss the bridge if I go deep into Forsyth. Mugging isn’t big there, but there is a confrontational element because I’m “out of place”
With that said, Birmingham probably has more of centralized crime issue, whereas here the crime sparsely spread out in like 4 counties. So in Atlanta I think you’ll have to learn a lot more areas than you would in Birmingham.
That’s the most sense I can make out of it.
You can’t just look at crime stats without putting them in context.
I feel crime is always concentrated no matter what city. So as far as one being more dangerous than the other is being pretty ambiguous. Even the crime ridden cities you here about in the media like Detroit, Baltimore, Chicago, St. Louis, New Orleans as long as you avoid the bad areas you're fine. Atlanta and Birmingham certainly aren't winning awards in overall safety but as the above poster said: the core isn't usually dangerous if at all. It's mainly in neighborhood areas.
Birmingham is like Chicago and the Southside, in Bham, most of the crime is concentrated to the West, which statistically makes Birmingham seems more dangerous than what it is.
Now Atlanta is a bigger, much sprawling city, so anything can go down wherever. It really just depends on how much you know the areas, and how you carry yourself. I’ve seen fights at Lenox, shootouts in Midtown, etc.
Birmingham is like Chicago and the Southside, in Bham, most of the crime is concentrated to the West, which statistically makes Birmingham seems more dangerous than what it is.
Now Atlanta is a bigger, much sprawling city, so anything can go down wherever. It really just depends on how much you know the areas, and how you carry yourself. I’ve seen fights at Lenox, shootouts in Midtown, etc.
Certain pockets of area of both probably have their fair share of crime. It's not like an entire specific side of each city has crime. Specific pockets of a neigbhorhood on that particular side of town might have more than others. To general lump an entire side into one to avoid because of a few bad spots is not a accurate way to judge.
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