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Originally Posted by Vulcan
Up until at least the 88 Olympics, Calgary was safe to walk pretty well everywhere, well at least for a guy. I'm not saying crap didn't happen but there was no particular area that was real sketchy and made your skin crawl. Pre crack days I guess.
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There is always going to be crime. But there is no place in Calgary that is 'unsafe' to walk through or so sketchy that you should be expecting something to happen. Especially as a guy. I'll yield the female concerns, but that would be all over the whole world, not just here, and far worse in the other 99% of the world.
This city is one of the safest cities (actually rated second), in one of the safest countries (also near the top of the list), in the safest period in time is history!
Most of us have had confrontations that are dangerous, I've even had a knife pulled on me for the purpose of robbing me, that is just a fact of life. You live life, you're going to have some mix-ups or confrontations. The more your out, or the more social you are, the more likely it'll eventually happen. It' just a numbers game. But it's unfair and statistically inaccurate to say it's unsafe, or bad, or was better before.
People think of the good old days (whether they were pre 88, or pre world war, or whatever) and tend to glorify them. But things were dangerous (in the same vein that they are dangerous now) then too. Things were actually far more dangerous 100 years ago than they were now. But people don't look at it that way, cause they just have the idea of idyllic little towns and close knit communities in their head.
Heck, I've taken snoozes down by the river while I was waiting for the first train to start again, and I've never been bothered.