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Originally Posted by CCIP
Well, yeah, but like you said that depends on how that crime is organized. Some tends to be extremely racist, and that can end badly if you're the wrong ethnicity - there's places I wouldn't feel very safe being white at all.
That said, not much of this fazes me... I grew up in an area probably worse than any of these (in 90's St. Petersburg, Russia), where a lot of the violent crime was not organized. Things happen, but in general it helps if you're street-wise - and that's not something that is terribly complicated.
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I was in St Pete in Jan of 1984. My hotel room had a view of the cruiser, Aurora. Have to admit I took a walk alone at nigh,t approx. 2100, and suddenly got the feeling I wasn't at all safe. I scurried back to the hotel.