I’d be willing to be good money you couldn’t take the bus out of the old X headquarters at 11pm for a month straight and not get robbed at least once. I got robbed twice in the 3 months I worked in the TL.

Look I understand what you're saying, but it really doesn't take much survival skills to walk around at 2am without getting robbed. Living around people who haven't sold their soul is well worth the cost. I love the neighborhood and will forever defend it.

Survival skills are nice to have. But it's even nicer to live and work in a location where robbery isn't something that someone might reasonably experience twice in 3 months.

Of course, I left a job when my lunch got stolen twice in 3 months; well 3 times, but one time I brought leftover pizza in a pizza box, that's understandable. Taking leftovers in plastic is just rude... especially when my shift started at 4pm and everyone else was working normal hours, other than the overnight person whose shift started when mine left.

If I had been robbed because of the location of my job, I'd probably show up one more time, to return my stuff (assuming it wasn't stolen when I was robbed).

I've been robbed before, too. I prefer that to the sterile antisocialness of the wealthy.

others may value personal safety (of themselves or their family) higher than you do. Twitter may not be optimizing for folks like yourself (you may be in the minority).

Incredible mental gymnastics.

Pathetic. Your comment fills me with visceral disgust.

So take an antacid. Save the banal unpleasantries for twitter.

Worms who convince themselves they like being a victim of crime deserve to get stepped on.

Ludicrous. You've conflated a preference for authenticity with wanting to be a victim of crime. Straw man much?

There's a lot to unpack about the attitudes in your comment. I hope you were just having a bad day, because otherwise: you're quick to judge, intolerant of different values, you scorn victims of crime, and you'll sacrifice intellectual integrity to score a cheap point.

"The evil I can tolerate, but the stupidity..."

You know an area is fucked when people start trying to blame the victims for the crime.

I'm not blaming them for the crime, just their lack of understanding how the world works. If you want to understand poverty in america the only place to look is capital and americans' commitment to individual material comfort over all other values.

> the only place to look is capital and americans' commitment to individual material comfort over all other values

the only place to look is the disgust with which americans view enforcement of public order

Not to mention talk about "survival skills" as if that should be normal in a highly wealthy western country in a highly wealthy city. That's shit you talk about in developing countries.

old people love talking about shit. Younger people are more into survival.

"Survival skill" is a matter of looking like a scary scumbag who's more trouble than he's worth to fuck with. I'm good at it, I size up the real scumbags like they're meat I'm going to chew up and spit out and I have the physical build to back it up. They cross the street to avoid me. But many people will just never have this "skill".