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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.
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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.
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