Comment by ghushn3
6 months 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.
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".
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