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Originally posted by MOBIUS
I think that says more about you than me...
OK, so I'm new to Sydney only having been here for a couple of months, but I will tell you this - in all of the inner cities areas (say within 10kms of the centre), I can think of only one remotely dangerous area and that is an area called Redfern, which has a large number of Aboriginal housing projects.
In ALL my day to day travels all over the city in the last two months, I have had only one threatening experience on Cathedral St in Woolloomooloo where I was accosted by a pushy homeless person, while there were other homeless people about. I walked past, that was it.
As for Redfern, I have zero need to go there, I just go through it by train sometimes...
Also, I imagine that Redfern has a similar rep to say Brixton or Peckham in London. They are perfectly safe during the day - they just have bad reps, that's all...
What I'm talking about is walking around the city centre of say New York, Washington, New Orleans, San Francisco, Miami, Boston, Los Angeles etc, etc, and know for a fact that there are whole districts, or streets that are very dangerous or threatening even during the day...
That is F*cked up and I can't believe Americans put up with that!
That was just their ancestors...
I think that says more about you than me...
OK, so I'm new to Sydney only having been here for a couple of months, but I will tell you this - in all of the inner cities areas (say within 10kms of the centre), I can think of only one remotely dangerous area and that is an area called Redfern, which has a large number of Aboriginal housing projects.
In ALL my day to day travels all over the city in the last two months, I have had only one threatening experience on Cathedral St in Woolloomooloo where I was accosted by a pushy homeless person, while there were other homeless people about. I walked past, that was it.
As for Redfern, I have zero need to go there, I just go through it by train sometimes...
Also, I imagine that Redfern has a similar rep to say Brixton or Peckham in London. They are perfectly safe during the day - they just have bad reps, that's all...
What I'm talking about is walking around the city centre of say New York, Washington, New Orleans, San Francisco, Miami, Boston, Los Angeles etc, etc, and know for a fact that there are whole districts, or streets that are very dangerous or threatening even during the day...
That is F*cked up and I can't believe Americans put up with that!
That was just their ancestors...
Jon Miller
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