Louisville

[LouisvilleSKI]

okay I live in louisville and even though it was ranked 8th safest with a pop 500k+ not a hole lot of cities with our population and I personaly think louisville has high crime I live in the east end of louisville suburbs and Im saying this when I was a kid ive been jumped by kids with guns on westport road but their are a lot of very nice areas of louisville u just gotta look around and downtown smells awful in the summer with no wind

[missymomof3]

Originally Posted by LouisvilleSKI

okay I live in louisville and even though it was ranked 8th safest with a pop 500k+ not a hole lot of cities with our population and I personaly think louisville has high crime I live in the east end of louisville suburbs and Im saying this when I was a kid ive been jumped by kids with guns on westport road but their are a lot of very nice areas of louisville u just gotta look around and downtown smells awful in the summer with no wind

Haven't you posted something similiar to this before?

[censusdata]

Louisville ranked 8th of of 32 cities w. 500k+ people. That's top 25% in that category. Even the pre-merger Louisville was the 18th safest in it's size

[MarleyRocks]

I currently am living somewhat near campus in an area that is by no stretch horrible but also is definetly not one of the nicer areas of the city. Upon arriving here I had so many people tell me how bad the area was, not to walk around alone, and in short basically just made the area out to be generally unsafe. However after being here for sometime now and walking everywhere I go regardless of the time of day or night or the neighborhood i'm in, I can honestly say I have not even one time felt threatened in any way. That being said I have lived in other worse off cities previously and can handle myself pretty well.

Basically the way I see it is if you have a little street smarts (not walking down the street at night alone in an area known to be not so nice while not paying attention and texting on your new Iphone), pay attention to whats going on around you, and simply aren't a confrontational ass, you should have no problems. However remember you are in a city so use some common sense, keep your wits about you, and take simple precautions with your possessions like looking things up and such and you will be just fine.

[stx12499]

Originally Posted by MarleyRocks

I currently am living somewhat near campus in an area that is by no stretch horrible but also is definetly not one of the nicer areas of the city. Upon arriving here I had so many people tell me how bad the area was, not to walk around alone, and in short basically just made the area out to be generally unsafe. However after being here for sometime now and walking everywhere I go regardless of the time of day or night or the neighborhood i'm in, I can honestly say I have not even one time felt threatened in any way. That being said I have lived in other worse off cities previously and can handle myself pretty well.

Basically the way I see it is if you have a little street smarts (not walking down the street at night alone in an area known to be not so nice while not paying attention and texting on your new Iphone), pay attention to whats going on around you, and simply aren't a confrontational ass, you should have no problems. However remember you are in a city so use some common sense, keep your wits about you, and take simple precautions with your possessions like looking things up and such and you will be just fine.

Amen. You must be from the Philly area? The problem is many raised in KY do not posess "street smarts," and Louisville is an urban enough city to scare some of these people.