Where can you hide your money?

[TruHart1]

You were protected by your own innocence!

 

Whenever I think of that particular experience, I am amazed that I reacted in such a stupid way. If he'd said BOO! I'd probably have thrown my billfold at his feet! One other time, back when the bowery was a more industrial area, much less populous than now, I had gotten lost down there and was trying to find a busier and thus safer area, when this younger couple came up behind me and I almost freaked out because I hadn't noticed them until they were right there by me. They just asked me how to get to The Bowery and I was too naïve to even know we were IN the area known as the bowery! LOL :confused:

 

TruHart1

[+ quoththeraven]

I took the subway from Grand Central to the Bronx late at night during the mid-70s and was only scared of being pickpocketed or groped when I had to get off the crowded train I was on while at the 125th Street station and get on an even more crowded train. There was a transit cop on the platform and no opportunity to do much of anything without detection. What I found truly scary was standing around the train station in Katonah on my way back waiting for the camp van to pick me up. (I was working at a sleepwalk camp.) There was no one around.

 

As a 24-hour city, most of NY doesn't scare me. I also consider New Yorkers warm and helpful -- much more so than, say, their more reserved compatriots in Boston.

[AdamSmith]

As a 24-hour city, most of NY doesn't scare me. I also consider New Yorkers warm and helpful -- much more so than, say, their more reserved compatriots in Boston.

 

I would put both parts of this statement on a bumper sticker.

 

Besides the human temperature being higher in NYC, I think that--contrary to some stereotypes--it can be argued Manhattan is safer than Boston these days. Across 2010-2011 as a Manhattan resident I rambled the city at all hours of the night, in every state of inebriated oblivion, with zero trouble.

 

Then on a visit back to Boston in 2013, after leaving a restaurant in Chinatown at midnight, I was robbed at knifepoint. Next day I saw I had walked one block too close to a park on the wrong side of town that the police have effectively given over at night to teen gangsters. Not a phenomenon I ever observed in NYC, in my peregrinations from the Bowery to 155th St.

[bigvalboy]

I took the subway from Grand Central to the Bronx late at night during the mid-70s and was only scared of being pickpocketed or groped when I had to get off the crowded train I was on while at the 125th Street station and get on an even more crowded train. There was a transit cop on the platform and no opportunity to do much of anything without detection. What I found truly scary was standing around the train station in Katonah on my way back waiting for the camp van to pick me up. (I was working at a sleepwalk camp.) There was no one around.

 

As a 24-hour city, most of NY doesn't scare me. I also consider New Yorkers warm and helpful -- much more so than, say, their more reserved compatriots in Boston.

 

I would put both parts of this statement on a bumper sticker.

 

Besides the human temperature being higher in NYC, I think that--contrary to some stereotypes--it can be argued Manhattan is safer than Boston these days. Across 2010-2011 as a Manhattan resident I rambled the city at all hours of the night, in every state of inebriated oblivion, with zero trouble.

 

Then on a visit back to Boston in 2013, after leaving a restaurant in Chinatown at midnight, I was robbed at knifepoint. Next day I saw I had walked one block too close to a park on the wrong side of town that the police have effectively given over at night to teen gangsters. Not a phenomenon I ever observed in NYC, in my peregrinations from the Bowery to 155th St.

 

I've never met a New Yorker I didn't like....ok ok, there is always one, but you get where I'm going.

[+ Gar1eth]

I took the subway from Grand Central to the Bronx late at night during the mid-70s and was only scared of being pickpocketed or groped when I had to get off the crowded train I was on while at the 125th Street station and get on an even more crowded train. There was a transit cop on the platform and no opportunity to do much of anything without detection. What I found truly scary was standing around the train station in Katonah on my way back waiting for the camp van to pick me up. (I was working at a sleepwalk camp.) There was no one around.

 

As a 24-hour city, most of NY doesn't scare me. I also consider New Yorkers warm and helpful -- much more so than, say, their more reserved compatriots in Boston.

 

 

You want to talk about scary cities-and I love this place. But I was visiting Chicago around 1999. I get a newspaper and there is this story about an innocent girl who went out on a date with a drug dealer. They ran into some rival dealers. The rivals killed the couple, and I think decapitated both of them.

 

Gman

[tedbear]

You want to talk about scary cities-and I love this place. But I was visiting Chicago around 1999. I get a newspaper and there is this story about an innocent girl who went out on a date with a drug dealer. They ran into some rival dealers. The rivals killed the couple, and I think decapitated both of them.

 

Gman

You start fooling around with drug dealers in ANY city and you're asking for trouble. Just two days ago a guy was shot in my small Kentucky town over a drug deal gone bad.

[+ Gar1eth]

You start fooling around with drug dealers in ANY city and you're asking for trouble. Just two days ago a guy was shot in my small Kentucky town over a drug deal gone bad.

 

Yikes!!!

 

Gman

[Zman]

Here's a good example of what not to do with your money: keep hundreds of thousands of dollars in your car. This guy got robbed twice:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Whittaker_%28lottery_winner%29

Scroll down to "Legal and personal problems." It makes for a good read if you enjoy Schadenfreude.

[Frequentflier]

A safe for your home (they have very small versions for a car too) is fairly inexpensive. Decent versions are also good for protecting documents in the case of a flood or fire (I'm not a fireman so don't know how each different type would fare in a fire but anything in a safe is better off than if just left in your sock drawer). Home alarm systems with monitoring (including fire) can be as low as $50 per month.