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The funny thing is, if someone came on asking about moving to Oxford or Goldsboro, the answers would be, "Well, its Rural NC, not much there..." yet they're far and away more dangerous places to live.
No to Oxford, maybe to Goldsboro. Pill addicts are less violent than gang bangers.
Man found shot up in a parking lot less than a block from my post office on Miami that i routinely go to. Durham is a very safe city.
Yes because again...your post office off Miami Blvd represents the entire city of Durham
Some dude came armed into the Super Target in Apex and shot his ex girlfriend dead. In that same parking lot there have been two carjackings in the past year.
I guess Apex is a super dangerous town that should be avoided too?
Man found shot up in a parking lot less than a block from my post office on Miami that i routinely go to. Durham is a very safe city.
....the one near Miami/Holloway?
Yeah dude, if you hang out in the absolute trashiest parts of the city you are going to see crime. I don't know anyone who would advise living in "that" part of Durham and I'm hard pressed to think of a proper city that doesn't have an area like that. If this is where you are looking, of course you are going to think the place is a war zone. I'm just not sure what relevance that has to grad students who are not planning to finance their tuition through cocaine sales.
If crime concerns you...why on earth are you spending time in that area?
Here come all the predictible defenders hahaha. It's like bushhogging over a wasp nest.
The fella that literally lives in East Durham and has experienced crime dont know what he's talking about apparently, and all these other folks that dont live there know better.
Y'all have fun in your echo chamber now, i gotta feed the hogs.
Here come all the predictible defenders hahaha. It's like bushhogging over a wasp nest.
The fella that literally lives in East Durham and has experienced crime dont know what he's talking about apparently, and all these other folks that dont live there know better.
Y'all have fun in your echo chamber now, i gotta feed the hogs.
Actually, almost everyone on this forum acknowledges the reality of crime in east Durham. Whats predictable is the unjustified and illogical generalizations that are made about the reality of the entire city.
The fella that literally lives in East Durham and has experienced crime dont know what he's talking about apparently.
Apparently not. He doesn't seem to understand that just because bad neighborhoods are bad doesn't mean that good neighborhoods are bad. Which isn't exactly a complicated concept.
Again...no one is saying the ghetto isn't ghetto. Its pretty ghetto. Its not the ghetto-iest ghetto that every ghetto'd, but its still undeniably ghetto.
We're just saying the odds of a Duke grad student getting randomly gunned down while going for a jog around East Campus are...slim. And what goes on in the ghetto shouldn't be of much (direct) concern to him or her. Because no one is going to make them live in the ghetto.
No to Oxford, maybe to Goldsboro. Pill addicts are less violent than gang bangers.
Having grew up there and still go there to visit friends in the area, Goldsboro has no shortage of gang bangers and they’re no sweethearts. The majority of the shootings are typically between gang members and not random, but it still doesn’t change the fact that violent crime rate is high because of it. Fortunately, most of the violent crime is confined to areas the average Joe wouldn’t go in the first place.
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