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I was just thinking of this because I see so many terrifying reports about all the craziness in Chicago.

I currently live in Philly and trust me (outside of where I live in University City), this city is pretty sketchy.

Still has nothing on Baltimore tho. That place is nuts.

Of course this is all up to our own personal perceptions and experiences but what cities have you visited that literally had you feeling a little nervous?

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Sofia, Bulgaria, without question. Oakland, Philly, SE DC, Anacostia, Baltimore got nothin on Sofia.Spent 4 days there in 2003 on R&R from Kosovo. Was warned by police not to go in certain neighborhoods because they would realize you were American and kill you for what little money you had because they had literally nothing. The slums there were the worst I have ever seen. No electricity, no running water, no toilets. 

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Really about Phoenix? I thought it was pretty nice there

Edited my post. What's scary is the right wing lunatics who run things here.

I guess it is nice enough if you are white with money, but otherwise have your papers ready or you might end up in the tent city.

Add: Not to mention all the shootings. A lot of people out here think they are Wyatt Earp, walking into the Olive Garden with their Cowboy hats and sidearms as thought they were headed to the showdown at the OK Corral. It's still the Wild West, but with box stores instead of wilderness.

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Kingston, Jamaica 

The ride to/from the airport was not to be taken lightly. Armored Police trucks parked at corners to keep the people safe. There were times the client told us to take a certain road to the airport as there was some "trouble" we should avoid if we went the other way.Shacks with no floors, water, electricity & pieces of tin kind of placed together for a roof.  At night, I stayed in the hotel behind 8' walls with barbed wire on top. 

 

it's really too bad because all of the Jamaicans I met were very, very nice. I was there when Bolt won his 1st gold medal. The entire city was literally shut down 1 hour before the race. There's a huge outdoor TV near the main bus station in downtown Kingston. People, cars, buses, trucks, all came to a dead stop to watch the race. Then the city & country exploded into 1 massive party that lasted until the next morning. Really, really cool to experience. 

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Medellin in 1973.  An armed guard met me and my sister at the busstop after school every day and walked us home.  Bars on all the doors and windows of our house.  Caught a guy with a scissor jack in them one night ran him off before he got in. Poverty where kids were actually starving with the fat belly and all. Main threat for us was kidnapping, thankfully never happened, but the police wound up being the ones who finally robbed us.  Actually lived in the same neighborhood, Envigado, where Pablo Escobar must have been cutting his teeth at the time.

 

I hear it's a very different place now, love to go back some day and see it. 

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Lagos, Nigeria

 

While there, state department made me travel in an armored car.  The plane that "landed"  an hour before mine crashed during its approach, and everyone on board died.  At that point they grounded half of the airlines, so i was stuck for a couple days, when i finally finally got a filght to Accra, Ghana... the other plane that was doing the lagos to Accra jump (a cargo plane this time) crashed the same day as my flight.      

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DC was pretty damned scary in the 80s.    I was at Trax one thursday night (trax was basically in the middle of where Nats park is now), and stuck my head out the front door to get a breath of air.... the usual huge line was absent, and it was strangely quiet... becase... there had been a drive-by shooting and two guys were dead in a car right by the entrance.   

 

when i was wee lad, and DC bars were willing to serve booze to a 4'10" 85 pound 14-year old boy, we used to swing by the 14th street corridor before we headed home.  It was a trip to science fiction movie about a 3rd world country.  There were about 25 hookers of all flavors and persuasions per block.  every storefront (except for mr yums :) ) was a liquor store, a porn/peep booth shop or a church mission.   

 

(oh and DC had the "murder capitol of america" easily shored-up)

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Juarez Mexico is easily the scariest city I have been to.

 

Crime everywhere, murders happening daily and everything is run by the drug cartels.

 

 

Had to be there for 3 weeks setting up IT infrastructure for a medical supply manufacturer.   I could not get out of that town fast enough.

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I run all over Philly. Never had a problem. Now Camden...Camden is scary.

Going there for a concert next month

Just a little nervous lol

Juarez Mexico is easily the scariest city I have been to.

Crime everywhere, murders happening daily and everything is run by the drug cartels.

Had to be there for 3 weeks setting up IT infrastructure for a medical supply manufacturer. I could not get out of that town fast enough.

You're bad ass just for taking that job bruh

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DC was pretty damned scary in the 80s.    I was at Trax one thursday night (trax was basically in the middle of where Nats park is now), and stuck my head out the front door to get a breath of air.... the usual huge line was absent, and it was strangely quiet... becase... there had been a drive-by shooting and two guys were dead in a car right by the entrance.   

 

when i was wee lad, and DC bars were willing to serve booze to a 4'10" 85 pound 14-year old boy, we used to swing by the 14th street corridor before we headed home.  It was a trip to science fiction movie about a 3rd world country.  There were about 25 hookers of all flavors and persuasions per block.  every storefront (except for mr yums :) ) was a liquor store, a porn/peep booth shop or a church mission.   

 

(oh and DC had the "murder capitol of america" easily shored-up)

 

You should have seen it in the late '60s & early '70s. 

Yeah, we did the same thing on the way home from high school. We used to jump off the DCT, run into the liquor store, buy some Boons Farm, & get on the next DCT home. You only needed cash. Yeah, 14th street wasn't a place you went to anytime. Well, if you needed heroin, needles, a nickle bag & hookers then yeah, that was where you headed. 

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You're bad ass just for taking that job bruh

Aww thanks Brave.   While I was there, I was feeling like anything but a bad ass.

 

Now that I am older, and make a much more decent living, I would turn that job down.  But at the time, I really wanted to prove my abilities.  No only to myself but also to potential employers.   They did give me hazard pay though.

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DC was pretty damned scary in the 80s.    I was at Trax one thursday night (trax was basically in the middle of where Nats park is now), and stuck my head out the front door to get a breath of air.... the usual huge line was absent, and it was strangely quiet... becase... there had been a drive-by shooting and two guys were dead in a car right by the entrance.   

 

when i was wee lad, and DC bars were willing to serve booze to a 4'10" 85 pound 14-year old boy, we used to swing by the 14th street corridor before we headed home.  It was a trip to science fiction movie about a 3rd world country.  There were about 25 hookers of all flavors and persuasions per block.  every storefront (except for mr yums :) ) was a liquor store, a porn/peep booth shop or a church mission.   

 

(oh and DC had the "murder capitol of america" easily shored-up)

My Dad has worked in D.C. since 1986 and he has echoed how much worse it was back then in the city.  Of course, every U.S. city was crime-ridden in the 80s with the crack epidemic.

 

D.C. had 88 homicides in 2012, 104 in 2013 (12 from the Navy Yard shooting so really 92).  In 1991, there were almost 500 homicides.  1991 was an ugly year in America, except of course for the Redskins winning.

 

 

As far as U.S. cities go, Camden, NJ.  I will never drive through that hell hole again.  International cities are on a whole other level. 

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Going there for a concert next month

Just a little nervous lol

 

You'll be fine attending the concert. :)  You can divide Camden into two pretty distinct areas: (1) The Waterfront & Stadium District and (2) Camden Residential.  The former contains the aquarium, museums, the Battleship, Rutger's, stadiums, concert venues, a couple high end condo buildings, and is actually pretty nice.  I have no problem taking my kids there for minor league baseball games (go Riversharks!).    The latter on the other hand pretty much contains urban Hell.

 

Camden Waterfront

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The rest of Camden

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