Worried about holidaying to America

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DH and I would love to do New York but the safety of America around their laws etc puts me off. I went nearly ten years ago and this wasn’t a consideration then but I was still a teen and travelling with my parents, and a lot can change in a decadd

Would it/has it put anyone else off?

@WakeMeUpWhenGoodOmensIsBack

Yes, I don't dispute that, but the OP hadn't posted about a road trip. I was just pointing out that regardless of where you live, you're more likely to be killed or injured by something as mundane as a car journey than you are to be a victim of serious crime as a tourist in New York (assuming you conduct yourself with some basic common sense).

New York is probably one of the parts of the USA I’d feel safest around. Manhattan itself feels very safe! it’s the other areas of the states that are a bit scary.

@MissConductUS

I really wish more places here would do that. I always used to tip a barista, etc. a pound or two, but almost never have cash these days. There's one coffee place near Sloane Square that has a separate card reader you can tap on the way out to leave a pound, which is brilliant.

I have done loads of road trips & driven thousands of miles across the US, taking in 20+ states and I have never had a bad experience. Once you get outside the big urban areas, the highways are fantastic and a joy to drive on. I feel much safer driving in America than I do on the M25.

I was in New York a couple of months back. No problems.
The smell of weed on almost every street corner would knock you out

I wouldn’t even think this. No more riskier than other big cities

I went in March.
New York is fine. I even used the subway trains.
Las Vegas is a dump
San Francisco is pretty but every where feels like London 30 years ago.

biggest shock was the ‘casual’ racism and the homeless.
oh god, the homeless!
in all three places, just everywhere.
for context I live in central London but this was on another level.

Harlem is pretty solidly gentrified nowadays! If you look at a crime map of NYC, Times Square is the worst in manhattan, but it's heavy on larceny.

The places that are really most dangerous are not places tourists go. It would be neighbourhoods like Brownsville and East New York in Brooklyn.

Hahaha ok, I’m sure they are missing you lol.

I live here. I have never felt scared or unsafe the whole time I’ve lived here. Don’t believe everything in the news.

I loved Harlem in New York. Felt like east London. Manhattan is just rich and safe.

San Francisco is a lot scarier.