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Old 05-14-2014, 05:14 PM
 
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As the title states...where was the most nervous or uncomfortable you have ever felt ...name the city and if you know or want to list the particular neighborhood and why you felt the way you did!

I have a few..

Downtown San Antonio a few blocks from the riverwalk and Alamo. My gf and I where stopped multiple times bye random people asking for money and would see them meet up at a corner and kind of follow us damn near all the way to the river walk. Just felt very desolate and alone downtown..and a very uneasy vibe.

Montgomery and Birmingham Alabama... Similar experience.

Leaving downtown Chicago (where I'm from) and making a few wring turns to see a few gangbangers sitting on a car with guns out.

Gainesville Florida. Slept in a motel 6 on a road trip and could hear what appeared to be a prostitiution ring with truckers going on.

Savannah Georgia...oh lord..make a few turns away from the beautiful downtown and you'll be in what seems like an endless ghetto.

Charleston South Carolina...again beautiful but the downtown felt very quiet for a weekend night. Kinda creepy. And then just blocks away from downtown area is a much more sketchy span of neighborhoods.

Block away from the strip in Vegas...gf didn't wanna cross the street so I went to the gas station to grab a drink or whatever and as I was coming back it appeared there was a car sitting in this abandoned parking lot right by her the whole time and as I crossed the street it took off..

Sure there are plenty more but that'll get it started.
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Old 05-14-2014, 07:15 PM
 
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Not a terribly useful or interesting thread. Seems kind of troll-ish.
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Old 05-14-2014, 07:18 PM
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Leaving downtown Chicago (where I'm from) and making a few wring turns to see a few gangbangers sitting on a car with guns out.
What'd you do? Were you on foot or driving?
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Old 05-14-2014, 07:21 PM
 
Location: Louisiana to Houston to Denver to NOVA
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You're from Chicago and these are the scariest places to you?
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Old 05-14-2014, 07:25 PM
 
Location: ATLANTA
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Bankhead in Atlanta, MECHANICSVILLE,4 SEASON,CASCADE RD IT PLENTY. ALL IN ATL
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Old 05-14-2014, 07:27 PM
 
Location: ATLANTA
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Savannah is ghetto, I totally agree with that.
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Old 05-14-2014, 07:29 PM
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Savannah is ghetto, I totally agree with that.
wouldn't expected that. I assumed it was a cute historic city with little ghetto-ness to it. Kinda like a southern version of Portland, ME.
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Old 05-14-2014, 07:46 PM
 
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First of all...this thread is not trollish.
Every city has good and bad areas so its quite interesting to here about peoples personal experiencences. And it also helps others be more aware of certain areas.

The Chicago incident was on a street that takes you out of downtown that you can't get off. I got off eventually at the first exit and took it down some ways. This is where I saw the group. I was driving with a friend. Just kept driving and didn't stop for nothing. Eventually found our way back to the expressway and didn't look back.

Third I lived all over Chicago (dad lived near midway, mom lived in the south burbs, family on the north side and south side). Chicagos crime is really in pockets to be honest. I didn't really go downtown or use Chicago all that much but I never had too many bad experiences. Now with that said I didn't go wandering around the city by myself with no direction...maybe driving during Christmas time to look at lights and such or for a trip to Freddie's Italian ice.
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Old 05-14-2014, 07:47 PM
 
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wouldn't expected that. I assumed it was a cute historic city with little ghetto-ness to it. Kinda like a southern version of Portland, ME.
Savannahs downtown is pretty neat and historical. Very very cool but with that said you can be in some of the most run down areas I've been to in a matter of a few turns.
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Old 05-14-2014, 07:50 PM
 
Location: StlNoco Mo, where the woodbine twineth
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East St.Louis can be spooky at times.
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