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[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by Munchkin03

Also...how bad are most college towns really? Even those in the core of a city usually have excellent police/security coverage. None of my friends at Columbia or Penn got robbed/mugged on campus, and those schools are in the "roughest" parts of their respective cities.

SLU is in Midtown and although they're working to improve, or even gentrify, the area around campus there is no 'campus town.' I had friends get mugged (for $1, because they were college students who didn't carry cash), and they shut the big gates around campus at night to discourage people cutting through who don't belong. So I learned how to walk in a city, WHEN to walk in a city, where to keep my money and when not to cross the street yet because there's someone hanging out on the sidewalk, and better safe than sorry. Those lessons helped me live in my poor, but not particularly 'bad' neighborhood in grad school and work even work with my current population. It's an attitude thing.

YMMV

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[aephi alum]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

SLU is in Midtown and although they're working to improve, or even gentrify, the area around campus there is no 'campus town.' I had friends get mugged (for $1, because they were college students who didn't carry cash), and they shut the big gates around campus at night to discourage people cutting through who don't belong. So I learned how to walk in a city, WHEN to walk in a city, where to keep my money and when not to cross the street yet because there's someone hanging out on the sidewalk, and better safe than sorry. Those lessons helped me live in my poor, but not particularly 'bad' neighborhood in grad school and work even work with my current population. It's an attitude thing.

YMMV

/not participating in the OP of this thread on purpose

I take it that Midtown = Midtown St. Louis rather than Midtown Manhattan.

In any case, you have to look like you know exactly where you're going. If you look confused or lost, you look like prey.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by aephi alum

I take it that Midtown = Midtown St. Louis rather than Midtown Manhattan.

In any case, you have to look like you know exactly where you're going. If you look confused or lost, you look like prey.

There's a Midtown Manhattan?

/question answered