I’ve lived in a big city for years now. Never seen anybody get mugged, or shot, or carjacked, despite doing activist work that often has me visiting poor minority neighborhoods.
The only time I ever really felt uneasy was when I had to walk alone at night through a neighborhood where all the businesses had bars on the windows. Worst thing that happened was a couple of people asking me for money, and they didn’t give me any shit when I said I didn’t carry cash.
But any time I visit the small town where I grew up there’s always someone or another acting like I came back from a fucking warzone lmao
“Try that in a small town” oh you mean the suburbs where everyone is alienated and afraid and paranoid of their neighbor so they shoot a kid who’s basketball lands on their front yard? Yum, community spirit!
oh you mean the suburbs where everyone is alienated and afraid and paranoid of their neighbor
No better description. They might as well surrender to the Machines and get into the Matrix.
The Matrix won’t be able to extract any good juice from those brains.
The steak scene from the matrix but the steak is overcooked and slathered in ketchup to own the libs
Also you know what beats out all those bad things?
Deaths from fucking car accidents which happen waaaaaaay more often in suburban and rural areas.
it is MY RIGHT to DRUNK DRIVE 40 MINUTES to and from the BAR
They fear what they don’t know.
A guy got murdered in his car near a place I was working in Miami. I saw a guy pee on a burger king in LA. I saw a young woman’s coochie in a park in San Francisco. I met some die hard TЯ卐m₽ supporters in Pensilvania. My father almost got car jacked in Chicago.
Shit happens all over the place all the time. More shit happens where there are more people.
A guy got murdered in his car near a place I was working in Miami. I saw a guy pee on a burger king in LA.
I’m sorry but the juxtaposition of these two made me chuckle
Murder is literally the equivalent of urinating on private property. /s
Well why not pee on the burger king?
I saw a guy pee on a burger king in LA.
My monocle flew off reading this, what an uncouth brute!
It’s more than just not knowing - a lot of popular media feeds the idea that cities are all warzones directly in to their heads, making up whatever details are needed to keep up the narrative. The average chud lives in a comprehensive media bubble telling them that everything is NYC 1970s bad but worse, all the time, when the exact opposite is true - Cities are safer than they’ve ever been in the US, overall violent crime rates continue to fall, Cities are generally not the most violent places in America by a good margin.
I live in a city. Today a dude tried to smash my window in and called me a f[slur].
In 2022, a homeless dude stole my bag from my on Burnside.
In 2020, multiple comrades got fucked up by the PPB.
In 2016(?) a comrade of mine was stabbed on the lightrail.
In 2015, a comrade was run over by a fascist (rip Lewis)
In 2014 a comrade had their house ransacked by the pigs during a “wellness check.”
Cities can be violent places. That said, I live in thr suburbs now and desperately miss Portland. Lake Oswego can suck my fucking asshole. I’ll take rest of it any day.
And you know what? It’s more dangerous here. Everyone’s sedentary because they can’t walk anywhere. Everyone’s an alcoholic because they’re alone and miserable. Everyone’s broke because they have to pay for a car. This shit kills people.
In 2020, multiple comrades got fucked up by the PPB.
What is the PPB? This is the one time I’ve seen that acronym refer to something other than pig poop balls.
Portland Police Bureau
Cities do suck dick though.
Too loud, too many people, not enough trees.
^ average suburban lover
This is why I hate the city. The mere mention of preferring not to be surrounded by cars, smog, and noise is met with sneers by elitist dickheads.
You’re not hot shit because you live in a city pal.
Elitist? Brother you literally started the thread saying cities suck dick and depicted yourself as chad.
One time we were explaining to a relative how a storm had downed some tree branches and they implied that our urban trees were just weaker compared to their country trees lmao
Smh at the rootless cosmopolitanism of these city trees
I used to live in an area where trees were planted too close to the curb and street, so 50ish years later the trees got huge and had a very lopsided root system that would knock them straight into the road. Every year a few go down and wreck the overhead powerlines.
This was firmly a suburb though.
When my grandma was still around, the family would all go to her gouse for holidays, and she lived in a tiny little town in a redwood forest. Since redwoods are protected here, some of them grow straight up through the road, so it feels like you’re walking into this mossy post-apocalyptic land of colossal pavement-breaking trees and banana-sized slugs.
Man, redwood trees rule
That sounds really amazing. I love forested areas. I don’t know how people look at a bare sky with no trees and go “ah nature”.
