Comment by ghushn3
2 days ago
> extremely dangerous neighborhood
I've lived in urban areas my whole life. Including some of the largest cities in North America. While there's places I consider higher risk, and routes I wouldn't typically take, simply existing in some neighborhood in Milwaukee isn't some existential threat to life and limb.
Keep your head down and walk a few blocks to somewhere safer and get a cab/uber/lyft out of there if needed.
Heck, book another Uber, you know at least one driver is in the neighborhood.
Once you spend time in an actually dangerous neighborhood - one where people can spot your out-of-place-ness before you even get out of the car - one where the good guys are the ones telling you to get the hell out before you find yourself in a real bad situation - ones where the gas station attendants are hard as hell - you’ll understand that your experience of walking through vaguely poor neighborhoods is not akin to dangerous neighborhoods.
Nobody who has ever been in a dangerous neighborhood would have this opinion unless they’re truly callous
I lived in Baltimore. There’s some truly scary spots, there.
As for booking another Uber, anyone that has lived in less-than-pristine areas, knows that these neighborhoods can be “blacklisted.” You can’t get Ubers or cabs to come in.
Sure, and you know what? If we were talking about Baltimore I might concede some ground here. But unless I'm WAY off base, Milwaukee isn't anywhere close to parts of Baltimore when it comes to "existential danger from walking in the streets".