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I hesitate to weigh in here, but my observation after several years of doing a fair bit of traveling to a wide variety of places is this: In any big city, anywhere in the world, there will be plenty of people ready with lectures on how "this is a big city, and is therefore a dangerous place. You need to be careful." Often, this will be repeated with escalating tones of alarm if it becomes clear that I've been ignoring it. Sometimes the claim will be that their city is especially dangerous, and sometimes the claim will be that it's dangerous just like any other big city. Sometimes it takes on the form of "this is a really safe city, but don't go out at night." It doesn't matter. Some cities really are dangerous, and some seem quite safe, but there's no quantifiable difference between lectures received in places that really are dangerous and places that aren't. -Steve On Fri, 23 May 2008, Paul Stewart wrote: A lot of it is common sense - New York is a GREAT city .. no question and very safe overall. But common sense will tell you not to take a leisure walk through Harlem at 3AM .. having said that, I've walked through Central Park (65th St.) at various times of the night and never had a problem, but then again that's different too...
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