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I’ve always viewed Canada as being a lovely peaceful place…somewhere I’d like to live!
Is self-defence really necessary?
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Not in this part. It's a cesspit. And not any longer. I'll be retiring in 12 years and making a plan to leave. If that is feesable.
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Lots of people feel this way and I really like Canada and Canadians myself. Also, the last time I had to defend myself from physical violence it was in Canada, right around 1996!
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It's funny how we are influenced to see certain areas of the world as peaceful. Reminds me of those people who talk about nature as a place of beauty. You know the types who tend to focus on the beautiful blue skies, rainbows and calm lakes, whilst forgetting about the dark clouds, tsunamis and venomous snakes.
You mean the fun stuff?
The USA is a big place, very diverse. Most of it is as safe as anyplace in the world and the rest is safer than that. There are pockets of high crime in many major cities and some of them are more dangerous than others. But even in the worst of them (Chicago arguably) regular folks go about life unmolested every day.
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Ah you have me going now. Lived in Cornwall for nine years. I miss that. Expensive fresh giant strawberries here but not the cream and scones.
Haha, actually nature will kill you every chance it gets. Rather live next to a motorcycle gang than be naked and lost in the Rocky Mountains. I saw The Revenant, you can’t fool me
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Last summer I saw astronaut, Chris Hadfield talking about his career. He said the whole time he was on the ISS he was thinking, ‘What’s the next thing or action I perform than could kill me and how do I avoid it?’ Imagine spending six months like that!Haha, actually nature will kill you every chance it gets. Rather live next to a motorcycle gang than be naked and lost in the Rocky Mountains. I saw The Revenant, you can’t fool me
I can relate! Kind of like disarming a bombLast summer I saw astronaut, Chris Hadfield talking about his career. He said the whole time he was on the ISS he was thinking, ‘What’s the next thing or action I perform than could kill me and how do I avoid it?’ Imagine spending six months like that!
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I thought you were an accountant?I can relate! Kind of like disarming a bomb
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Six months? I've been married 26 years!
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Like growing up in South Central Los Angeles in the 1980s.Last summer I saw astronaut, Chris Hadfield talking about his career. He said the whole time he was on the ISS he was thinking, ‘What’s the next thing or action I perform than could kill me and how do I avoid it?’ Imagine spending six months like that!
You know how it is with money. One wrong move and BAM!I thought you were an accountant?
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Depends on where you live. There are safe areas within a city and then there are some really bad areas that you just want you avoid at all cost.
To answer your question. The US is safer than what most people outside the country think and its more dangerous than what most people think. The US is just a really large country and the difference between danger zone and safety zone can literally be a block away. I'm not sure if my description helps or not. It's just really difficult lump all of the US as Safe Country vs Dangerous Country.
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LOL funny. I should have read your through all of these post first. I just typed the same thing.. If I had to give some advice to avoid the dangerous areas, I would say avoid the areas where it looked as if hope went there to die. Avoid the areas where it looks like a lot of people like to drink, and avoid the areas where no one can hear you scream. (I know in Georgia, women like to run on trails like that alone). For me personally, I don't mess with trails like that. I'll get on them if I'm with family or friends, but I don't do the solo thing on the trails. Just for safety reason if I get hurt where I can't move or have trouble moving, then I don't want to be on a trail that is so unused that no one will find me. For those same reasons, I wouldn't want to be so far out in the country that if I got hurt and family weren't around, that I would just have accept that I might die that day. If a trip to the Hospital requires a Helicopter then I'm too far away from people. lol.
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I've always see that the people who usually hype the dangers are those who live far away from danger. People who are often out of danger for the most part are the ones who don't want to move from their homes. People who are in the most danger are often those who can't wait to get out of the area. It's definitely an unusual type of behavior to me. People who live in safe areas talk the most bravado. People who live in dangerous areas talk less of it. Bravado in some places is an invitation to death.
That's how it was for me in Baltimore. I wasn't afraid, but I was very focus on not letting my mouth get me in trouble. I pretty much talk this way when giving advice about certain areas. If you go to this area don't do A and look out for B. If you go to this other area look out for C and always make sure you have enough gas to drive through the area, don't stop for gas in that areas.
One of the easiest ways to get targeted is too look like you don't belong in the areas. That whole "You look lost" vibe should be avoided in some areas.
Warriors, come out and play….
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And stay the hell off MLKJR blvd.
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