I feel pretty safe in general, even though I work in a so so section of a large metro area. I live in a very safe suburb and I'm honestly more worried about the sudden unpredictable random acts of violence.
Post by laurensmomma on Aug 26, 2015 17:47:47 GMT -5
Generally, I do feel safe. I live about 5 miles away from where one of the mall shootings happened about 2 years ago, and it took me awhile to be able to go back into that mall. I still don't feel comfortable in the food court, which is where the shooting took place.
My biggest anxiety is over school shootings, now that Lauren is at a school. I don't care that the likelihood is small that something will happen.
Post by melmon0417 on Aug 26, 2015 17:59:54 GMT -5
Oh, and I definitely do not feel safe in the city I work in. I have to walk down the block to a parking garage every day, and every day I have my key ready to stab someone in the eye, and I clutch onto my pocketbook. We hear sirens all day, every day.
Generally. I hate guns though and live in a very fun happy area. So I do worry about the crazy fun toters and who may have a weapon in their car and decide you pissed them off while driving.
Post by monkeybabe on Aug 26, 2015 18:10:23 GMT -5
I feel safer walking by myself in Portland at night than I did walking around my small northern California town as a teenager. Personal safety wise, I feel pretty safe here.
Post by spaghetticat on Aug 26, 2015 20:00:45 GMT -5
I don't feel super safe, but I don't know that I would feel safe anywhere. Our county has a really bad heroin problem and there has been some crime associated with that.
Post by The Foozzler on Aug 26, 2015 21:06:15 GMT -5
Day to day, I feel safe. I live in a small safe city. I am comfortable in our yard and walking the neighborhood alone.
However, Sandy Hook perminantly changed how I feel about safety. Especially working in a school. Growing up in the Newtown area, it seemed like the safest place in the world. The biggest scandal was someone selling pot at McDonald's. I always felt safe and my biggest fear were raccoons when I was outside alone at night. I would have never believed that my town would become a household name for violence. I am not scared in a day to day sense. I am terrified of the fact that we walk around every day not knowing when and where the next mass shooting will be.
I do occasionally get a touch unnerved when we have an unhappy client. People come in drunk or high and get pissy when we can't magically and instantaneously fix problems. Add in the stress of families continents apart and the frustration and shame of working low wage jobs with little respect, and it's a recipe for someone to seek revenge.
A similar organization upstate was attacked a few years ago, and more than a dozen people were killed.
In my actual home, yes. In this city/state? Not really. I grew up in an insular, anti-gun culture, and this place is not only gun-friendly, but we've had more mass shootings (2 school, 1 movie theater) than possibly anywhere else. So, no.
I feel super safe where I live. We know our neighbors well and all look out for each other. It's generally a quiet and crime free area of town. Some little punks took money and sunglasses out of our cars once, but that's really the only invasion of privacy we have ever had.
Canada so Ya. I live in a super Muslim area and I always see them walking to their mosque in their white outfits and such, they're very nice people and they invite me and julian to their mosque for arabic lessons even though they know we aren't Muslims. I don't think of terrorism when I see them at all. They're just the really religious people that like long walks and bring my recycling bins in because I'm lazy.
I feel very safe where we live now. We are out in the country on five acres and live on a dead-end gravel road about 1/4 mile from the highway.
At work is a totally different story though. I work in a bad part of town. Our parking lot is fenced in and has three strands of razor wire on top. We've been told to never work past dark!
I lived in a suburb of Detroit Which was one of top safest cities in the US (Troy Michigan) I worked in Detroit and it was bad but I carried mace and my work had guns, bullet proof glass and a Panic button (which was useless since police would show up 8hrs to 2 days later.)
This is a really interesting thread. I feel safe in my neighborhood.
At work I do and don't. I mean I have thought about what would happen if we had a situation and I've thought a lot about what I would do. Even to the extent of setting up my supply room with book cases in certain spots and black paper covering the window. There's one rule during our drills where if we lock the door and a student is knocking and calling for help we can't open it, that's the part I can't get past. I don't know what I would do, I have bad dreams about it. The drills give me anxiety for days after and students sometimes cry during them. I hate that we have I do this.
I don't feel safe at my grandparent's house. My grandma grew up in this house so she will never leave. They live in one of the worst areas for gang violence and shootings. A guy was shot in their front yard. There are break ins all the time even during the day. Once when I was driving home, I was 18 and alone no phone, I was at a red light and a group of men surrounded my car and started banging on the windows and yelling things to me. They were trying to open my door but it was locked. It was the scariest moment of my life. I remember my mom telling me not to make eye contact so I just stared straight ahead and when the light turned green I drove away as fast as I could. I started sobbing and threw up on the highway. I'll never forget that and it's made me paranoid about a lot of things. Also last year a group of teenage boys was targeting elderly people and playing the knockout game. They killed two elderly people who we're leaving a pizza place and gas station. I was really scared for my grandparents then.
I suppose it's naive, but yes I feel safe. Our suburban city is regularly on "safest cities" lists. Half the time my doors are unlocked and I'm not concerned. We live in an upperish middle class neighborhood that's next to more affluent areas. I feel like wouldn't the robbers go to the other neighborhoods? Plus I'm in a densely populated area, so what are the odds that someone would rob *our* house. As far as physical violence it never even crosses my mind. Naive. I suppose I get a little nervous when I go running in the dark, but that's just common sense.
I do. Sometimes I freak out because we live on the top of a hill and if there was ever a break in or attack in our home, it's doubtful our neighbors would hear. But our town is very safe and since the local police dont have much to do, they cruise around and patrol the neighborhoods and streets all day. So it's nice to feel that there is a police presence.
Dorothy Zbornak I've been thinking about this recently - do you think in terms of terrorism, it's safer in the U.S. I ask because it seems like there have been a lot of random acts of terror in Europe (I mean implemented or inspired by known terrorist organizations) than here. But of course we have more random acts of violence, which is certainly a type of terrorism.
Note: as a Jew, I feel safer in the U.S., which I think influences my view of living in Europe a lot. There's a lot less blatant anti-semitism here (not to say it doesn't exist) and fewer acts of extreme violence specifically targeting Jews (I'm looking at you, France)
Dorothy Zbornak I've been thinking about this recently - do you think in terms of terrorism, it's safer in the U.S. I ask because it seems like there have been a lot of random acts of terror in Europe (I mean implemented or inspired by known terrorist organizations) than here. But of course we have more random acts of violence, which is certainly a type of terrorism.
Note: as a Jew, I feel safer in the U.S., which I think influences my view of living in Europe a lot. There's a lot less blatant anti-semitism here (not to say it doesn't exist) and fewer acts of extreme violence specifically targeting Jews (I'm looking at you, France)
That is an excellent point. I am afraid of acts of terrorism here in Europe, more so than in the states. When I say I feel safe here, I mean I'm not worried about random assholes shooting me or my kids when they're in school. But terrorism in Europe is a real problem. Also, I can understand feeling unsafe as a Jew in Europe.
Post by PatBenatar on Aug 27, 2015 14:06:11 GMT -5
I do for the most part, despite some crime in my neighborhood (including a shooting ) We do lock all our stuff up and there are definitely areas I wouldn't walk alone in though.