Originally posted by sh76Part of my post was intentional hyperbole, although not the part about the battered cars. God damn, if you have a car you care about, you sure wouldn't bring it into the Big City.
Typical snap judgment based on reputation and not reality. New York is the safest big city the US and most of Manhattan south of Central Park are among the safest parts of the city. If you're afraid to move around midtown or downtown during the day for fear of crime you're either clueless or paranoid.
As for the driving, yes, driving is tough. There is a lot ...[text shortened]... e you're going. That's why you take the train or the bus or a cab and leave the car at home.
And speaking of Big Cities, most of my experience with them comes from my visits to Center City Philadelphia.
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Originally posted by SoothfastWell, yes, I think it's safe to assume that we realized that "knifed, car-jacked, pounded into a bloody pulp, or otherwise hammered into the shape of a pomegranate" contained some level of hyperbole.
Part of my post was intentional hyperbole, although not the part about the battered cars. God damn, if you have a car you care about, you sure wouldn't bring it into the Big City.
And speaking of Big Cities, most of my experience with them comes from my visits to Center City Philadelphia.
But hyperbole implies some truth in the underlying idea.
The idea that New York (especially lower Manhattan, which is where the visitors generally hang out) is dangerous simply has no truth to it at all; especially as compared to most other places in the US.
Edit: It now occurs to me for the first time that the entire line may have been a reference to vehicular damage and may not have been a reference to crime at all. If so, kindly ignore my point.