Tijuana Rio de Janeiro Cape Town Caracas to some extent Houston (I lived in Cambridge Oaks at the corner of Cullen Blvd. and I think Scott Street (?) and two people were robbed at gunpoint while I lived there and one professor got shot at night at the McDonalds drive through)
I have been in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico for several hours before. Its probably top 5 dangerous cities in the world. Places thats I actually live in would be Mexico City I guess
Downtown Johannesburg, South Africa (the actual downtown, not Sandton). Pretty much all nice hotels have relocated out of there, and even the stock exchange has moved out of downtown. That's just sad. It's a chaotic scene. I was genuinely concerned for my limo driver as he waited outside for me. Of course, I have been all over Mexico, but have never felt unsafe there.
Libya - Benghazi: All my friends were white, they (locals) believed that meant they were Americans...went through some adventures due to this (the youth hated us)....nothing life threatening, but you have got to have some ballz at that time to be hanging with white folks. Venezuela - Caracus: There are slums that you can't even enter.... my father and brother did go visit for fun....and fun it was not, men surrounded them at one point, but some old man stopped anything from going down, don't know what was said by him...we were damn lucky. When I did drive there I didn't stop for no red lights, even when a cop was standing there....it was gangsta (I was 17)
Somebody else was just robbed in broad daylight last week...they tookt he person's Toyota Tundra around 2 pm in the parking lot. Got an email about it last week...hate being at UH late.
This leads to the real answer...New Orleans, Louisiana. Great city, really cool, lots of culture, but, my god...I didn't even feel like I was in the United States anymore.
Houston. I lived in a townhouse in across from Westbury Square. I witnessed 2 seperate shootings, hit the floor once in my living room because someone out side my window was firing a gun (I lived in an end unit), and woke up twice a week to gun fire. I left that place after 10 months even though I paid for 12.
New Orleans comes to mind. Houston ain't that hot either. When one fight a night at a club is "expected" that just means your club is ghetto.
Newark, NJ......after the sun went down. Ever seen that scene from Harold and Kumar? Late at night, the unofficial rule here is that you treat red stoplights as flashing yellows.
Lesson learned on that one. Never check out a place on a bright sunshine Sunday afternoon because they all look peaceful. Or at least if you do, come back on a Saturday night. I thought Meyerland and Bellaire were nice so how bad can this place be???
I haven't been to Sao Paolo so I would have to say Mexico City. There are certain parts that are even scary for the locals.
The crime in Atlanta is unbelievable. The intensity of the crimes are off-the-charts. Houston does have a crime problem, but the intensity of each crime isn't that big.
