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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Greetings, I think the 0.02 take-away for this discussion is: If you don't feel safe doing what you are doing, or being where you are, then stop/leave. In almost any big city, it's really not a problem - there are lots of people around and things are usually ok. However, your intuition is usually a pretty good guide. A corollary is, if you are scared, even if the area is "safe" certain actors will pickup on it. Therefore, the simple act of feeling uncomfortable will probably raise the likelihood of you getting into trouble. Unless you've lived a very sheltered life, your "intuition" will usually give you warning WAY before you get into trouble. BTW - there are a lot of big cities that I have no concerns walking alone in at 0300. However, not all cities fit in that bucket. There are also places that you just don't go to even in the middle of the day. Chris On 23 May 2008, at 17.53, Steve Gibbard wrote: 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.
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