How safe do you feel in America? \ stacker news ~AskSN

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747 sats \ 2 comments \ @stack_harder 2h AskSN

Since we have quite a few US-based stackers, I thought I would ask.

Now, of course, it depends on city, habits, and all sorts of things, but I noticed that, in my brain, I have an almost immediate association of 'not safe' when it comes to the US.

Maybe it's the endless news about school shootings, random acts of violence, liberal-enabled homeless drug ghettos. Bit like how now when I think of London I think of the very expensive tube and stabbings.

Is this just an attention bias thing? I mean I don't actually watch the news, but obvs whatever does filter thorugh, tends to be the worst shit.

Like, if you have kids, do you worry about school shootings, or is it kind of not on the radar?

When I lived in Moscow in the mid-2000s, people back home would ask if it was dangerous etc, and I never had any trouble, despite always being out all night in the bars and things on weekends, traveling different places. But a lot of that is down to good situational awareness.

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115 sats \ 1 reply \ @didiplaywell 36m

Trust me, you are safe in the US. God forbid you ever get the Argentinean experience of living in fear every single day. The fear of not knowing if you're going to make it back home from work, or if you are even going to find your home as you left it. Getting back to a fully empty house is normal. And hoppeles: you will never recover what's stolen. Stealing is practically legal. Trying to get your stuff back is practically illegal, and god forbid you find the one who did it, because you're going to have to move to another city, which is the norm, and what the police itself will kindly advise you to do. I'm not exaggerating in the least. When Iran started to bomb Israel some months ago, hundreds of videos went viral here of Argentinians who emigrated to Israel who where calming down their relatives saying that they felt pretty secure and actually feared more for their relatives back in Argentina. I would go to live in the US right now, just like it is right now.

That said, the way to keep the standard high is to worry whenever it's felt it's getting lower, so keep it that way. Just don't lose the reference of where you're at.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 49s

There are definitely some Democrat-run cities that are trending in the Argentinian direction (as you described it, I had no idea it was like that), but I've felt perfectly safe almost everywhere I've ever been in America and until very recently I mostly lived in low income areas.

Even in the most dangerous cities, the crime is usually (historically) isolated to very small areas that are very easy to avoid.