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Originally Posted by sammyg2
Never been there, only know about it from what I've read and saw on "the first 48 hours". They've filmed lots of episodes at Overtown.
But at first glance the numbers don't look so good:
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We were invited to a wedding in Tulsa OK this past January. My wife happened to look up the crime stats for the city and was worried about our safety.
I looked up the crime stats for West Palm Beach Florida and they were the same as Tulsa. I asked my wife if she felt unsafe in WPB, she said no, so she relaxed.
We went to the wedding, we had not rented a car since we were staying in downtown Tulsa, we walked everywhere, even at 1 in the morning leaving bars. We never felt like we were in a dicey situation. Are there bad areas? I am sure there are we were not in them.
Same goes for West Palm Beach, we go out there from time to time, as a matter of fact the groom of the aforementioned wedding met my wife and I in WPB for dinner and drinks one evening, we were walking around downtown WPB late at night, again, no worries. We were not in the hood.
Miami is the same, as is Fort Pierce, there are nice parts and bad parts, to assume the entire area is all bad is not being genuine. Most every decent size city in this country has bad parts. That does not mean the entire region is bad.
We do a lot of road trips all over the Southeast. Last summer we drove up to Tallahassee Florida. We did not do a lot of research, we picked a hotel we had points with and headed to it. We were so disappointed in the city. We were expecting a sprawling downtown area like Charleston or Savannah, instead it was a spread out mess with no real downtown with everything requiring a car drive to get to. We assumed since it was such an old city it would be laid out more to accommodate walking, we were wrong.
Furthermore, we did not feel safe there walking around at night, we ventured out once, I noted we were being followed we got inside a business fast and hung back and watched. Once I felt we were good to move we bee lined to the hotel and never did that again. We stuck to adventuring during the daytime. I will never return there.
The only other city I have been in that made me feel that way was NYC, but I know NYC I grew up there, I noticed a road we were walking on from our hotel was pretty shady, I adjusted our route 2 streets over and it was much safer with a lot of people around.
Point is, many cities have good and bad, focus on the bad and you spend you life sitting in your house scared of the world. I prefer to get out and explore.