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| quote: | Originally posted by Glow-Man
In fact, I personnaly feel safer walking at night in downtown Santiago, Buenos Aires, or even Rio than LA, or NYC. |
Yeah, did you know in RIO, out of every 100,000 inhabitants, 78 meet a violent death. In BOGOTA, 80 in every 100,000.... Compare that to less than 8 in New York. I'm sorry dude, but not one time that I've been in Ecuador, Panama (not SA, but just mentioning it), or Colombia, did I not have an experience that involved gunfire less than a block from me, first-hand experience of being pickpocketed, or seeing a car-theft... With the exception of the tourist areas of the capital cities, the locals know very well that you can't walk the street at night, it's sad but true. Every night, when you go to sleep, you hear gunfire, it's just a natural thing.... I've seen poverty that almost compares to shit you see on Feed The Children commercials from India or African countries... And then a mile away, you have the rich section of town with its two or three BEAUTIFUL nightclubs filled with beautiful (whiter) people... Luckily, my family is pretty middle-class/upper over there, but that's not to say they don't have a 20 foot wall around their house, which would be consider a middle-class-sized house in the states... I hate to jack the thread, and I hate to be seen as the bad-guy in this thread, but some stuff that people are saying just has to be corrected...
It's like going to another country where someone tells you he had an amazing time in Camden, NJ, but he was really in a small and very nice neighborhood in Princeton... like night and day. I'm done with the thread lol I really don't wanna be seen as a bad guy for disagreeing with people so much...
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