How safe is your neighbourhood,location!
Jan 17th 2010, 4:25 pm
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Re: How safe is your neighbourhood,location!
I took a bus from NJ to Philly through Camden. The bus stopped a lot of times in Camden and numerous sketchiest mofo's got on and off, so I just sat at the back ignoring them (but also keeping an eye for any hostile approaches). Nothing happened though my heart rate increased considerably throughout the whole journey.
I ended up with North Philly instead.
Jan 17th 2010, 4:42 pm
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The reason I ask this question is because yesterday, whilst chatting on my cell phone, I missed the turn to SF and ended up in the middle of Oakland 
...now there is not much that scares me but OMFG!! I drove for 11miles through the streets and it was full of black folk and Mexicans, now I am not racist but I did not see 1 white face NOT one and had they of all looked pleasant my opinion may of been different but it was flippen scary..the truck went into lock all doors and the baseball hat went on, while I prayed that no one saw a blonde chic and no one rear ended me or I them, as there was no way in hell I was getting out of that truck.........I have seen it on the TV show and now I have lived it the roughest, dirty, scary hole ever, I have been to some poor countrys and seen some things but that was expected, what I saw and felt yesterday was not.
So have you ever been scared in a difficult situation, or is the neighbourhood rough where you are?
Before anyone starts I have many Black and Espanic friends it's just a comment on my observations yesterday
...now there is not much that scares me but OMFG!! I drove for 11miles through the streets and it was full of black folk and Mexicans, now I am not racist but I did not see 1 white face NOT one and had they of all looked pleasant my opinion may of been different but it was flippen scary..the truck went into lock all doors and the baseball hat went on, while I prayed that no one saw a blonde chic and no one rear ended me or I them, as there was no way in hell I was getting out of that truck.........I have seen it on the TV show and now I have lived it the roughest, dirty, scary hole ever, I have been to some poor countrys and seen some things but that was expected, what I saw and felt yesterday was not.So have you ever been scared in a difficult situation, or is the neighbourhood rough where you are?
Before anyone starts I have many Black and Espanic friends it's just a comment on my observations yesterday
There's some scary places in NJ...Newark for one and Trenton has held the title of Most Dangerous City in the US.
Jan 17th 2010, 4:44 pm
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Re: How safe is your neighbourhood,location!
The reason I ask this question is because yesterday, whilst chatting on my cell phone, I missed the turn to SF and ended up in the middle of Oakland ...now there is not much that scares me but OMFG!! I drove for 11miles through the streets and it was full of black folk and Mexicans, now I am not racist but I did not see 1 white face NOT one and had they of all looked pleasant my opinion may of been different but it was flippen scary..the truck went into lock all doors and the baseball hat went on, while I prayed that no one saw a blonde chic and no one rear ended me or I them, as there was no way in hell I was getting out of that truck.........I have seen it on the TV show and now I have lived it the roughest, dirty, scary hole ever, I have been to some poor countrys and seen some things but that was expected, what I saw and felt yesterday was not.
So have you ever been scared in a difficult situation, or is the neighbourhood rough where you are?
Before anyone starts I have many Black and Espanic friends it's just a comment on my observations yesterday
...now there is not much that scares me but OMFG!! I drove for 11miles through the streets and it was full of black folk and Mexicans, now I am not racist but I did not see 1 white face NOT one and had they of all looked pleasant my opinion may of been different but it was flippen scary..the truck went into lock all doors and the baseball hat went on, while I prayed that no one saw a blonde chic and no one rear ended me or I them, as there was no way in hell I was getting out of that truck.........I have seen it on the TV show and now I have lived it the roughest, dirty, scary hole ever, I have been to some poor countrys and seen some things but that was expected, what I saw and felt yesterday was not.So have you ever been scared in a difficult situation, or is the neighbourhood rough where you are?
Before anyone starts I have many Black and Espanic friends it's just a comment on my observations yesterday
Jan 17th 2010, 4:57 pm
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Re: How safe is your neighbourhood,location!
My husband's company wanted us to move to Chicago so we were on a reccie trip. Everyone told us not to go near Cabrini Green...even the emergency services wouldn't go there.
Thankfully...I think you're right.
Jan 17th 2010, 5:03 pm
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Re: How safe is your neighbourhood,location!
I once saw a horror movie called "The Candyman" starring Virginia Madsen....it was set in the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago and I've never seen such a scary-looking place to live in my life, and it wasn't just because it was a horror film!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candyman_(film)
Camden, New Jersey (it's in the south west of NJ, just across the river from Philadelphia) has the highest crime rate in the USA and only two-thirds of school students graduate:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camden,_New_Jersey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candyman_(film)
Camden, New Jersey (it's in the south west of NJ, just across the river from Philadelphia) has the highest crime rate in the USA and only two-thirds of school students graduate:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camden,_New_Jersey
Jan 17th 2010, 5:07 pm
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Re: How safe is your neighbourhood,location!
Jan 17th 2010, 5:11 pm
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Re: How safe is your neighbourhood,location!
Some gross generalizations going on in this thread.... yes, parts of Oakland are extremely unsafe (West Oakland, anywhere along International Blvd for example). But a lot of the city is fine with no higher a crime rate than other cities of a similar size.
Jan 17th 2010, 5:12 pm
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Re: How safe is your neighbourhood,location!
True, but Camden NJ is still shite.
Jan 17th 2010, 5:15 pm
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I just had a read through the info at that link I gave Poppy girl.
Seems most of my guns would be illegal in CA, either because they're "assault weapons" (a bullshit term if ever I heard one - they're rifles, FFS), because they have mags that hold more than 10 rounds, or because they're handguns that are not on CA's "approved list" (eg my Bersa 9mm - the only Bersas on the list are their .380s)
So, there's an upside to living in TX.
Seems most of my guns would be illegal in CA, either because they're "assault weapons" (a bullshit term if ever I heard one - they're rifles, FFS), because they have mags that hold more than 10 rounds, or because they're handguns that are not on CA's "approved list" (eg my Bersa 9mm - the only Bersas on the list are their .380s)
So, there's an upside to living in TX.
Jan 17th 2010, 5:19 pm
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Re: How safe is your neighbourhood,location!
now there is not much that scares me but OMFG!! I drove for 11miles through the streets and it was full of black folk I have seen it on the TV show and now I have lived it the roughest, dirty, scary hole ever, I have been to some poor countrys and seen some things but that was expected, what I saw and felt yesterday was not.
So have you ever been scared in a difficult situation,
So have you ever been scared in a difficult situation,
I dont mind going to those sort of areas in daylight just as long as the OH is with me.
And heres me brought up in London and certainly have not lead a sheltered life, blimey I even moved over here from Luton
Jan 17th 2010, 5:20 pm
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Re: How safe is your neighbourhood,location!
I'm trying to remember someone who posted here that someone was murdered in his street - maybe this was 2 or 3 years ago....I'm pretty sure it was in Baltimore.
I can't remember who the poster was on this board, but I seem to remember that after a series of violent crimes in his neighbourhood, the murder was the last straw and he moved out.
I can't remember who the poster was on this board, but I seem to remember that after a series of violent crimes in his neighbourhood, the murder was the last straw and he moved out.
Jan 17th 2010, 5:24 pm
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Re: How safe is your neighbourhood,location!
I'm trying to remember someone who posted here that someone was murdered in his street - maybe this was 2 or 3 years ago....I'm pretty sure it was in Baltimore.
I can't remember who the poster was on this board, but I seem to remember that after a series of violent crimes in his neighbourhood, the murder was the last straw and he moved out.
I can't remember who the poster was on this board, but I seem to remember that after a series of violent crimes in his neighbourhood, the murder was the last straw and he moved out.
