"Come visit me in NYC." - that's too vague. What do you mean about NYC? Be as specific and detailed as possible, there might be people intimately familiar with NYC wanting to comment.
The rest of your notes are just showing slightly paranoid person who's projecting his/her own state of mind onto others. I'd hold my horses if I were you.
"Only the paranoid survive." Although lifted from another context, I think that well applies to many aspects of living in 2020s, especially in America, especially in densely populated parts. The downside, of course, is that without acting skills one comes across as paranoid.
Commuting via certain subway and especially bus lines can be scary as there are rarely escape routes away from (usually) unpredictable outbursts from randos. But In recently I had done so clear across the city (6-7 miles?) for 6 years. The actual violent crimes incident rates are still quite low, but as I get older I'm not interested in russian roulette. For that reason, these days I often walk the 4 miles (draw a circle) or so to Manhattan when I need to, and can do so timewise. I don't know what info you want that can't be sifted by a poseur from that publicly posted.
"unpredictable outbursts from randos" - that's not new in NYC.
Walking to Manhattan you must be in Brooklyn walking across Brooklyn bridge. Now, try taking subway from south Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, ferry from Staten Island, NJ transit from NJ, Metronorth from CT into Grand Central, LIRR from Long Island into Penn, etc - all in the morning on workdays during rush hour. Try driving into the city at the same time. Do the same in reverse at the end of workday.
What do you see? You won't call it peaceful commute? As peaceful as can be in a huge city? Don't bullshit me and others who know what they are talking about. And don't lie to others who never had a chance to see for themselves.
"What do you see? You won't call it peaceful commute? As peaceful as can be in a huge city?"
That's why I try to walk as often as practical. (And there are several directions than those most efficient over Brooklyn Bridge, about 6 bridges total into Manhattan, to my recollection.)
I was saying that *most* peoples' commutes on MTA are subject to these dangers. Seems you've spent too much time with your head in a book on the subway to notice there are crazy people on *at least* every other car when crowded.
As I also said earlier, I'm not waiting until I actually get hit myself. That's like the proverbial idiot "liberal" who "turns conservative" after his first mugging.
I meant bridges practically walkable. Don't start mentioning tunnels now.
As to "peaceful". Scroll back up and find the context of my original comment. Are bombs falling anywhere in the US the way the US facilitated their falling in other places?
You compare rando attacks in public transportation in big cities in the USA to real wars?
I didn't know that. I haven't tried to walk them all. That hardly proves I don't live in NYC.
"You compare rando attacks in public transportation in big cities in the USA to real wars?"
As I said, in various ways we are evolving into significantly worse physical violence. In 5-10 years it may well be like the 70s-80s again. One doesn't need incidents of actual (large) bombings a la Gaza to sound an alarm.
One thing that happens today with sufficient regularity to frighten is moped snatching, and the ubiquitous running of red lights at 30-35 mph by anything on two wheels (or one). I know a letter carrier who recently quit in part for this reason.
"Come visit me in NYC." - that's too vague. What do you mean about NYC? Be as specific and detailed as possible, there might be people intimately familiar with NYC wanting to comment.
The rest of your notes are just showing slightly paranoid person who's projecting his/her own state of mind onto others. I'd hold my horses if I were you.
"Only the paranoid survive." Although lifted from another context, I think that well applies to many aspects of living in 2020s, especially in America, especially in densely populated parts. The downside, of course, is that without acting skills one comes across as paranoid.
Commuting via certain subway and especially bus lines can be scary as there are rarely escape routes away from (usually) unpredictable outbursts from randos. But In recently I had done so clear across the city (6-7 miles?) for 6 years. The actual violent crimes incident rates are still quite low, but as I get older I'm not interested in russian roulette. For that reason, these days I often walk the 4 miles (draw a circle) or so to Manhattan when I need to, and can do so timewise. I don't know what info you want that can't be sifted by a poseur from that publicly posted.
"unpredictable outbursts from randos" - that's not new in NYC.
Walking to Manhattan you must be in Brooklyn walking across Brooklyn bridge. Now, try taking subway from south Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, ferry from Staten Island, NJ transit from NJ, Metronorth from CT into Grand Central, LIRR from Long Island into Penn, etc - all in the morning on workdays during rush hour. Try driving into the city at the same time. Do the same in reverse at the end of workday.
What do you see? You won't call it peaceful commute? As peaceful as can be in a huge city? Don't bullshit me and others who know what they are talking about. And don't lie to others who never had a chance to see for themselves.
"What do you see? You won't call it peaceful commute? As peaceful as can be in a huge city?"
That's why I try to walk as often as practical. (And there are several directions than those most efficient over Brooklyn Bridge, about 6 bridges total into Manhattan, to my recollection.)
I was saying that *most* peoples' commutes on MTA are subject to these dangers. Seems you've spent too much time with your head in a book on the subway to notice there are crazy people on *at least* every other car when crowded.
As I also said earlier, I'm not waiting until I actually get hit myself. That's like the proverbial idiot "liberal" who "turns conservative" after his first mugging.
I meant bridges practically walkable. Don't start mentioning tunnels now.
As to "peaceful". Scroll back up and find the context of my original comment. Are bombs falling anywhere in the US the way the US facilitated their falling in other places?
You compare rando attacks in public transportation in big cities in the USA to real wars?
"I meant bridges practically walkable"
I didn't know that. I haven't tried to walk them all. That hardly proves I don't live in NYC.
"You compare rando attacks in public transportation in big cities in the USA to real wars?"
As I said, in various ways we are evolving into significantly worse physical violence. In 5-10 years it may well be like the 70s-80s again. One doesn't need incidents of actual (large) bombings a la Gaza to sound an alarm.
One thing that happens today with sufficient regularity to frighten is moped snatching, and the ubiquitous running of red lights at 30-35 mph by anything on two wheels (or one). I know a letter carrier who recently quit in part for this reason.
' "unpredictable outbursts from randos" - that's not new in NYC.'
You missed the part about my getting older. Also, it *is* getting worse.
It's been up and down throughout the years. If you're old you'll remember Dinkins.
I'm "old", but lived in NYC only 15 years.
Then you don't know even more than you think.