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Re:Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed t... by rainy59 on Thursday April 06, 2023 @04:59PM (#35474352)
NOLA used to be quite terrifying. Yet downtown French Qtr is a different world now. You can walk Warehouse to Frenchmen Marigny 3am just fine. Canal St. is really the only dicey area

Both Manhattan and SF are now more dangerous than downtown NOLA imo, but NYC is tame compared to SF. SF is getting next level - almost comparable to Johannesburg ZA

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Re:Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed t... by dragonwriter on Thursday April 06, 2023 @05:02PM (#35474400)
NOLA has higher violent crime (but lower property crime) than San Francisco.
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Re:Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed t... by rainy59 on Thursday April 06, 2023 @06:01PM (#35475138)
Oakland and San Jose usually had more violent crime than SF but founders knew better than to put an office there, knowing ppl will be regularly working well past midnight

LA is of course the home to the most infamous hoods of all but traffic is a much bigger practical concern since you won't be on foot. Seattle was never as desirable for techies as Bellevue - Amazon went to Seattle for cheap office space. Portland gets a bad rap because of Antifa but East Portland was always bad news

The only somewhat normal (and somewhat sleepy) city on the US west coast imo is San Diego

But imo by far the best city on the west coast overall is Vancouver Canada

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