I’ve lived in a big city for years now. Never seen anybody get mugged, or shot, or carjacked, despite doing activist work that often has me visiting poor minority neighborhoods.

The only time I ever really felt uneasy was when I had to walk alone at night through a neighborhood where all the businesses had bars on the windows. Worst thing that happened was a couple of people asking me for money, and they didn’t give me any shit when I said I didn’t carry cash.

But any time I visit the small town where I grew up there’s always someone or another acting like I came back from a fucking warzone lmao

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      Clearly the whole San Francisco Bay Area is Escape from Silicon Valley with Snake Plissken.

      I would unironically watch and probably enjoy that movie.

      The plastic surgeon scene in Escape From LA would be eclipsed hard by the creepy shit in that theoretical sequel. scared

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          He’s not nearly as calculated and brilliant as he thinks he is, so someone already connected that wanted to grift him could pull it off. He’s been duped before.