I went to college in DC in the late 1980s - literally heard gunshots at night behind our dorms. I still went out and about and enjoyed the city. I guess teenage girls are made of tougher stuff than old white male republicans.
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Or maybe you’re the typical progressive woman that most men steer clear of. Love your your tattoo art and piercings.
aug 12, 2025, 2:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Always have been.
aug 12, 2025, 1:20 pm • 81 0 • view
And DC is way safer now than it was in the 80s. He's trying to speak to people who've never set foot in DC, and never will, bc it takes all their courage just to go unarmed to their local corner store.
aug 12, 2025, 1:26 pm • 7 0 • view
SO MUCH safer.
aug 12, 2025, 1:43 pm • 0 0 • view
All the big cities have lost that sense of danger they had when I was a kid. They're almost boring now.
aug 12, 2025, 1:50 pm • 1 0 • view
I grew up in suburban western New York and, before I moved to Chicago in 1993, I had no idea what it was going to be like and if someone had told me that everyone just got robbed and mugged like twice a year, I probably would have believed them.
aug 12, 2025, 1:34 pm • 4 0 • view
I've lived in New Orleans for over 30 years. It's considered one of the most dangerous cities in the US. Many LA suburbanites will literally not set foot in the city under any circumstances. I have never been mugged. Not once.
aug 12, 2025, 1:38 pm • 6 0 • view
I had a job that sent me to Louisiana about every month for a year (usually New Orleans, sometimes Houma and Thibidoux) and I developed a deep love for it. It's a truly special place, and I never felt unsafe there.
aug 12, 2025, 1:42 pm • 2 0 • view
I also feel bad for anyone who confines their entire trip to the French Quarter because New Orleanians are absolutely wonderful people and they're just meeting other tourists and frenzied bar staff unless they're venturing into some of the neighborhoods.
aug 12, 2025, 1:43 pm • 2 0 • view
I live in Central City, generally considered one of the worst parts. Ten years ago, neighbors tell me, it wasn't uncommon to wake up to a body in the street. But like DC, violent crime is down here, and in this neighborhood in particular. My neighbors are wonderful people.
aug 12, 2025, 1:48 pm • 1 0 • view
As it turned out, I wound up getting an apartment in the suburbs for a year, made some friends who lived in the city, and found I was going in every weekend, found an apartment in the city, loved it and never looked back, but I can see how someone who never lived in a city would think that.
aug 12, 2025, 1:37 pm • 4 0 • view
City life isn't for everyone. It's a mindset you have or you don't. But I'm a city rat. Like you, I moved here from a quiet suburb, and never looked back.
aug 12, 2025, 1:43 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah, and I definitely had friends who tried out the city and decided they wanted something quieter where they could park easily (or had kids and couldn't afford a house in the city) and I don't begrudge them that, and I can definitely see why someone might love living out in the woods or something
aug 12, 2025, 1:46 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh, definitely! Everyone is different. Where you live is always a trade-off. I don't exactly like constantly having to pick up litter in my yard. But if I had to live in a clean, quiet 'burb in the middle of nowhere, I wouldn't last a week.
aug 12, 2025, 1:52 pm • 1 0 • view
I just know I went to two concerts at bars in the city, grabbed some food after and I was hooked. I love seeing my nieces and nephews on my wife's side experiencing a large city and seeing them think about doing an internship or applying for jobs here to try it on.
aug 12, 2025, 1:49 pm • 3 0 • view
Maybe if Rep. Burchett wasn't such a dick, someone would take him out someplace fun and he could have a chance to see that DC is a vibrant, thriving place.
aug 12, 2025, 1:38 pm • 3 0 • view
DC is awesome. (I suspect Bessent knows this, and he's just toeing the party line here.)
aug 12, 2025, 1:44 pm • 2 0 • view
I live in rural Ohio and my neighbors are shooting their guns off every day. Been to DC several times and don’t feel the least amount of fear walking the streets. Fear mongers every one of them.
aug 12, 2025, 1:40 pm • 5 0 • view
Did the same in NYC!
aug 12, 2025, 1:57 pm • 1 0 • view
Seafoam is made of tougher stuff than old white male republicans.
aug 12, 2025, 1:49 pm • 3 0 • view