Am from sunny California and am moving to Boston soon.

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by bronsin

I work in downtown Camden and there it is quite safe. However you enter the neighbohoods at your own risk! Sometimes the main road into Camden (The Admiral Wilson Boulevard) is closed due to flooding or traffic so my "escape route" is 27th street to route 38 or 70. One of my friends at work who lives in the Cramer Hill section of Camden, when she heard I sometime drive down 27th street, said "Dont go there. People get shot there!"

Me? Shoot me? As nice as I am?

Its like people from the west and midwest going to NYC for the first time. Its got a reputation as a "badass place" so its kind of thrilling to see it!

Yep. But the NYC of today is pretty different from the NYC of the past....a much cleaner and safer place than it used to be.

[bronsin]

Originally Posted by nookandcrannycar

Yep. But the NYC of today is pretty different from the NYC of the past....a much cleaner and safer place than it used to be.

I know...they ruined it!

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by bronsin

I know...they ruined it!

...I have kind of mixed feelings about that. I like not having to step over down and out people 'stopped'* (*) on stairs in the subway, but I don't really like how (for example) Times Square has become sort of a strange combination of the movie The Truman Show and a military installation .