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Originally Posted by valo403
I think it really depends on where you are. I love living in NYC, but it's certainly different than a lot of the country.
I have to admit though, that even though I see very few differences between the people in the two countries as a whole, things like this do make me pause to think about whether I want to stay here when i have a family. Used to be a no brainer that I would stay, now not so much.
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I have to think it's probably me being somewhat paranoid as well, given how much alarmist American media we get here and rarely is there a feel-good story from the US coming on the 6 o'clock news here in Calgary. So I have drawn a few conclusions which is unfortunate.
However, by the same token, my personal safety does feel threatened most every time I go to the States. In the last 10 years, the only place that I felt generally comfortable was in New York City, where law enforcement is everywhere and all the gangsters and scrubs I saw there in the 90's has since been replaced with hipsters and business people. Conversely, every time I go to San Francisco, the downtown district feels as schizo as ever, and I don't dare even go down to Union Square on my own past 10 PM. This is quite tragic.