Inspired by the "robbed" and "metro bus" threads I wanted to discuss the most dangerous city you've experienced. I've visit alot of city and I've lived in Stockholm and Paris. I would say that Paris is the most dangerous city I've experienced. There is alot of crimes espacially in the suburbs where you see alot of gang violence between different blocks and youngsters robbing other youngsters and even violence between polices forces and theses suburb youngsters. Then you can add a high rate of pick pocking in the city of Paris. When I lived there you had to be careful sometimes but you kind of get used with the athmosphere so I actually built up a toughness that I did not have before! Stockholm is alot safer but there is still some violence here and there. Sometimes you read in the newspaper about youngsters robbing other youngster but its on a much elsser scale then in Paris and you dont see the same kind of gang structure overthere basically because it doesent exist.
Paris was pretty gangsta. I was really put off by how anal retentive everyone was about keeping track of their stuff with respect to pick pockets. Plus the city is just soo nasty. It made London seem all that much better in retrospect tho.
I currently live in Chicago, so that's the obvious one. Others include - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Sao Paulo, Brazil Moscow, Russia Lahore, Pakistan (according to the media, at least)
<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/HyB3R6561FM&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HyB3R6561FM&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
I was in Youngstown, Ohio for one night during vacation... I found out it was one of the most dangerous cities in the US after I came home... http://www4.vindy.com/content/local_regional/311742968040174.php
Once I got an address mixed up and ended up at 116th and Morningside Ave., the wrong side of Morningside Park in NYC, at 5AM. That was probably the most uneasy I've been in a city in general. It was so bad that someone there told me I should leave. When I was a kid I was in Beirut. It was during a lull in the fighting but still somewhat dangerous. I remember seeing burnt out tanks still in the streets.
I would say Houston is pretty bad...I can't even walk back to may car after dark at UH without being paranoid about being robbed/held at gun point...get emails EVERY WEEK abuot this kinda stuff happening. I lived in Beaumont, and for a small city, its pretty bad there too, when I went to school there...thers some racial tension too in the Golden Triangle area, so that doesn't help matters either.
my entire dad's side of the family lives there. my cousin's best friend, who i met several times, got shot right between the eyes over a game of madden one week after he turned 18. not exactly the right side of the tracks.
For me I've spent a significant amount of time in Newark, NJ and Baltimore, MD and both places are trouble. Was just in Newark this past week, in fact, wandering around Penn Station. Mexico City is another place I've been that is completely not safe. Honestly Houston in the months following hurricane Katrina was as bad as any of them, though. That was horrible. I've spent time in Stockholm and thought it was absurdly safe.
In general, NYC is one of the safest large cities in the world. Violent crime in Houston and Chicago are way worse.
Riots in a train station in Paris <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/y20KAmGkW5g&hl=sv&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/y20KAmGkW5g&hl=sv&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
