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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.
I can't argue with any of your selections (though I'm surprised about Savannah; guess I never saw any of the bad parts when I was there), but I have to ask:
Providence, Scary? You must not have travelled much outside of New England.
One of my friends, who is originally from New York City, went to Johnson and Wales in Providence and she did not like the city at all. She often felt unsafe. She thought it was very pretty but didn't feel comfortable there.
II forgot another...I went to Houston to look at a car and it was all fine and dandy (southwest Houston?). I left to go home and I notice the salesman didn't give me my I'd back. So I turn around only maybe a few blocks away on a road that ran horizontial to i-10 and wow. It seriously looked like something out of a TV series. Pretty shocked and can only imagine what the northeast side looks like (That's apparently the bad side of Houston).
The bad parts of Houston aren't situated in one area of the city. They are scattered throughout the city. If you were in Southwest Houston, then I would say that area is worse than Northeast Houston.
I can't argue with any of your selections (though I'm surprised about Savannah; guess I never saw any of the bad parts when I was there), but I have to ask:
Have you ever been to Detroit?
I have not but Detroit seems like it would be a really neat place if it took care of its financial issues and could clean the place up (would take forever). It has a cool/unique location to the Midwest/Canada/and the northeast area...it has great architecture, great sports, and some nice suburbs from what I've heard. I heard they are selling houses to Michigan residents for 1,000 bucks...historic homes (granted need potential hundreds of thousands in repairs and are most likely in bad areas). Now if Detroit could bring people back, tear down and rebuild, get ahold of the crime and create jobs then it may have a chance. But there's a long...long way to go and it doesn't hurt that flint is down the road another hotbed for crime and destruction.
The bad parts of Houston aren't situated in one area of the city. They are scattered throughout the city. If you were in Southwest Houston, then I would say that area is worse than Northeast Houston.
I don't know...I was always under the impression that the northeast side was the bad side...ward 5 or something? Plus that's where a lot of poverty and crime/drugs take place because from my understanding a lot of people from new Orleans came after Katrina to this area. Never heard anything about the southwest part but while there will always be pockets in large cities of bad areas it just seems at the same time that its typically concentrated at the same time.
One of my friends, who is originally from New York City, went to Johnson and Wales in Providence and she did not like the city at all. She often felt unsafe. She thought it was very pretty but didn't feel comfortable there.
That doesn't make the place "scary". Unsafe? Not a city in America that might feel like that in places. I grew up in RI and spent every summer in Brooklyn. Is your friend really from NYC? Comparing unsafe or scary between the two is like comparing the moon to Jupiter.
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