Christopher said:

South Sacramento!!

We are hardcore.

I don't think I've ever lived in a place that I found "scary." However, I lived for about 2.5 years at 14th and Meridian in Indianapolis, and I know some suburbanites think it's a scary part of town. (It's on the north edge of downtown, near some not-so-good areas on the near north side.) But I never had any problems there, aside from the occasional homeless person asking for money. I was wise enough never to leave anything of value in my car, and so nobody ever messed with it. (People who didn't follow this rule tended to get a window smashed by some crackhead looking for something to sell or pawn to fund his next fix.)

One time I was approached by some guy from a small Indiana town whose car broke down on Interstate 65 (which had an exit two blocks from my place)... the poor guy seemed scared to death. I gave him directions to the neighborhood gas station, told him that I'd lived in the neighborhood for two years without any trouble, and assured him that he wasn't in the middle of the ghetto.

My one brush with violent crime (two crazed rednecks who seemed intent upon using a car and a pickup truck to inflict bodily harm upon me) actually happened in rural Indiana, so I actually feel safer in large cities. I've lived in both Boston and Indianapolis without any trouble.

In some ways I kind of miss living on Meridian Street... it's probably the best-known street in the city (it runs north-south right down the middle of the city for its entire length, and the stretch between 40th and 56th Streets has some nice mansions), and we got to see things such as the 2002 Olympic torch relay go by our apartment. But we're now in a much nicer apartment in a much nicer part of downtown.

Fayetteville, NC, for a little while...jesus...frightening...

when i lived on 19/stevens 8 years ago...
i lived right next to this park where all the neighborhood drug deals etc... would go on...
but when i was 20..i didnt haven any money...so i was living wherever i could for cheap..so thats where i lived...and i actually lived there for close to 3 years. i never thought of it as scary...untill i was able to look back on it i guess lol

I feel quite safe in built-up urban areas. One of my flatmates is a bit racist and lives in permanent fear of being attacked but nothings ever happened and I think it serves him right to live in fear for his stupid views on race!

Anyway, I once lived for a couple of years in a rural village called Marsden, up in the Pennine Hills of North England. That was fucking weird. After moving there, I found out it was meant to be the UK's witchcraft capital.

The kids were fucking horrible. Obnoxious, cocky little sods and miles worse than any you get in the city. Because it was a small community, you were automaticaly labelled an outsider, and they all married and dated with people who lived there, so the rather limited gene pool was reflected in their low intelligence and very ugly appearance!

Nice scenery though, which unfortunately meant you got bothered by film crews making shit tv programs like Last Of The Summer Wine and Where The Heart Is.

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In a sewer drainage Pipe. There were other people there trying to stay warm also. The Rats were eating well though. Only scary because I can't see in the dark. It gets cold at night in Chicago. So excuse me this is not a chip. Just happy to be out of that place. But I still see it when I have to deal with rude people.

queen627 said:

That sounds awful...

It makes you appreciate the sunlight and I scream when I see that commercial for that movie "Ben". I cn laugh now but at least it wasn't raining. I have to look at the bright side.

yonkers, ny (glenwood)

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[This message was edited Mon Mar 10 11:46:12 PST 2003 by Sataninas]

that's been in the early 1982-1984 ... at Zuerich's Riviera and at the rondell, Bellevue Platz. had always fresh air... it was very rude! One nighte, the coldest, was about -20 degrees celcius! Brrr... do not wish that to nobody!

LaVisHh said:

i almost got an apartment over in the stevens neighborhood...

i gotta say that mpls is the scariest place i've lived so far. it's the same as des moines, but a lot more goes down here.

Natsume said:

Man, I'm in Sacto, but near downtown and the college.

South Sac is a nightmare. I had a brief relationship with a guy right before Xmas and he lived in the heart of South Sac. I was bringing a pizza to him and I slowed down for some pedestrians a block away, and a fucking group of gangbangers/hoodlums/pissed off looking guys just walked up to my car on both sides, looking in. I sped off like Sonic the goddamn Hedgehog.