Fear? Excuses?

[forgotten_aria]

I think that I've concluded that I am just simply afraid of the area. Sure there were only 25 in all over 2001. (I love their pretty maps) Most of those do happen on the weekend nights between 8pm and 2am. Really, not terrible statitics, given. Unless you account for the fact that maybe everyone is paranoid and so it's only the non-paranoid that get mugged.

Lots of people told me it was my fault when I got mugged for walking to MIT at 1am in '98. So why I should I not be scared now?

People were going to walk me to my car, but I think that I was afraid of walking from my car. I don't think that that was all of it though. I think that I wanted someone for whom getting me to my car was in their interest. I think that having someone to just be in the car with me as I struggle with parking is important. Someone to be there if there is a problem at the door, because I forgot money or ID or something.

Maybe I don't know what's going on in my head, but I think that I've learned that I need to find someone to car pool with.

I hope the other people have fun.

Comments

[ivorjawa.livejournal.com]

Hell, I don't have anyone to go to Manray with most of the time, and so I don't usually go. Ping me when you're going to go next time.

(and we should do lunch this week.)

[trysha.livejournal.com]

Spirited Away - I love the userpic.

Eeep, looking at those maps is scary, all the 2001 street robberies around grey.

Myself, I am frequently worried walking home to grey from Akamai, I tend to try and be on the cell phone with my SO most of the time if I walk home at night, or I try to walk with sara when she leaves work. Other times I try to appear as being very alert, looking at people who are near me so that they know I've seen them, weaving back and forth across the street if i see a group of teenagers or scruffy looking people in the distance.

I once actually had a group of 3 people start crossing the street heading towards me right in front of grey. "The leader" of the group yelled hey you, come here a minute, fortunantly i was holding my keys and i just hopped up the steps quicky (but not paniced) and put my key straight into the door. I looked back after opening the front door to see one of them grab the "leader" of the group on the shoulder and said "she lives here" and they veered off without a word.

Kinda scary. And then there were the guys who were looking for terrance who tossed flower pots at grey.

Ya know, i really really wanna move, i've only been saying this for a year now - wait, i've been living here for a year now.

I totally empathise not wanting to wander around area 4 when you are alone, in fact, i think you are smart for not wanting to do so.

[forgotten-aria.livejournal.com]

As much as I loved the good parts of the community that was grey (I loved having great people around seeing them. Group dinners when the happened were great. Being able to walk places (in the day time) was great), I have so often been happy about moving out. SO HAPPY.

Never mind the internal problems with grey, just being able to walk home without scary groups of people hanging around. Not watching drug deals happen outside the window. Not finding graffiti in side the house (admittedly this is still when the Brown's son was still living there, letting his friends visit.) Not having bike seats stolen.

I hate being so negative about the place, but I think that moving was a wonderful thing, for no other reason that Area 4 is f-ing scary.

[ivorjawa.livejournal.com]

You make the area around Gray to be worse than My Humble Home in the Hood. Is this the case?
Dorchester doesn't seem anywhere near as bad.

[forgotten-aria.livejournal.com]

I posted the crime log, which is likely the most unbaised way of looking at it.

You are a scary looking solid guy, so maybe the world isn't as scary for you.

During the day the neighborhood isn't too bad, but at night there is always some group of teenagers looking like they're bored and want something, ANYTHING, to do. Trysh (I think) had someone try to get into the house behind her once. I got mugged a few blocks away (main and portland). In the few 5 or so years of people living in grey there are a ton of stories. Bikes getting stolen, tires getting slashed, people smoking pot while riding a bicycle (I didn't mind that one, if their doing pot, they aren't terribly likely to hurt me, and it's cheaper than most other drugs they could be doing.)

I don't know if it is worse, but I know that Somerville is so much better.

[ivorjawa.livejournal.com]

I would definitely be happier in Somerville. If, you know, I had the kind of space and rent that I do now.

Hey, I can dream, right?

[forgotten-aria.livejournal.com]

I just don't have anywhere else to compare too. I don't remember Ottawa. My house in pittsuburgh was proper suburbia, but I was mostly never out at night because of the stupi 7am school bus I had to catch. Then it was MIT dorms, 100 Mem, which could have been an MIT dorm area wise, Grey and then this house.

But I got lucky with this house. Someday the housing market should be sane again. Maybe then. Or maybe by then all my friends will have moved somehwere where I could have a real house, not that I'm complaining about this one.