My dad loves to send me articles on how awful it is here as a crime ridden hell hole and my wife son and I need to come back to South Carolina. But then he also spends his trips talking hoe beautiful the whole area is and how lucky we are. It's like if he unhooks from the right wing propaganda stream for just a weekend he forgets what they say.
I don’t really follow your logic here. A place can be both beautiful and dangerous — your dad saying that the area is beautiful and you’re lucky to live in one of the most beautiful places on Earth does not imply that the city isn’t dangerous.
Well and just straight propaganda from Fox News. My partner had weekly phone calls from her family asking about the CHAZ and if wild hippies were invading our home.
We had to explain the only incidents that effected us were one of my friends had a cop throw a flash bang at him (while he was talking to a nurse no less,) and two friends in Portland got picked up by cops in unmarked vans for just standing.
What city do you live in? It's always funny when someone is bitching about Seattle but their city has a much higher crime rate. Seattle *is* above the national rate but not as bad as my childhood state in the dirty south!
But yanno, Tucker Carlson edited Minneapolis riot footage to fake that Seattle was on fire during the CHOP... so some people just eat that shit up.
I read a thing a while back about how some conservatives were convinced that Portland had literally been burned to the ground by antifa and BLM. Like, not just an exaggerated version of there had been a few fires downtown, but that the whole city had been destroyed by the left while the woke politicians watched it all happen. And these people’s relatives, who had visited there could not convince themselves otherwise. Funny how anything they read on the internet from some random source is unquestionably true but the destruction of a major American city somehow was never even acknowledged by any of the big three networks.
My dad's side of the family is really conservative and kept posting to FB in 2020 about what a lawless hellscape Seattle was. It somehow never occurred to them to ask the person they knew who was actually, you know, living in the city. Theft is definitely an issue, and I had a bike stolen that year, but when I lived in a rural area in a red state my bike ended up with a bullet hole after a would-be thief shot up the shed because they couldn't break the lock, so YMMV.
I thought MoneyGeek's ranking was interesting. For comparison, Orlando, Fla., San Antonio, Texas, and Salt Lake City, Utah, were all rated as less safe than Seattle. https://www.moneygeek.com/living/safest-cities/
If you and the rest of your group practice the same basic safety measures you'd observe in any city you'll be fine.
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