Places you felt most on edge in your life

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Colon Panama - we walked out the dock, been told "do not go left when you walk through the gates, only go right". The lass I was with "why don't we go left, what's the worst that could happen?" We go left and get stopped by random strangers across the street shouting and wolf whistling at us and waving their hands. Ended up being able to convince her it wasn't a good idea to keep on going.

Got into town and it was interesting. Every shop had an armed guard at the door with a pump action shotgun. Most people had gold teeth, including one lass who looked about 8. Reggaeton absolutely blaring everywhere which was probably the worst thing.
 


Some ghetto in Vegas was canny edgy when going to the supermarket. Few places in LA are next level shit holes as well. Fuck all compared to even bad areas in London.
 
SAFCMark said:
Downtown LA for me.

Actually most cities on the west coast go from decent to horrendous within less than a block.

To be honest I've never felt the same even when in some supposed ropey as fuck parts on the East Coast. Ended up in some really shifty bars in Brooklyn and the Bronx but everyone seemed alright.

Driving the West Coast and stopping in some dodgy places for fuel. Randomers trying to start fights at petrol stations for no reason. Lanchester and Fresno in particular were ropey.
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Largely agree with this. My mates lived in Fresno. Stayed a few nights there, wouldn’t have wandered around much after dark. The experience I mentioned earlier in this thread was stopping the car in California late at night - creepy AF.

I don’t like LA much either.
pillars of hercules said:
I'm on a few weeks break working in Glasgow and practically everyone that worked for me had been in prison. I sacked one lad and he got put away for murder 4 months later.
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Glasgow is edgy AF. One wrong comment to the wrong person about football, and you could be in big trouble. I also hated the bouncers up there - they’d interrogate us at the door as to where we’d been etc.
Mallard said:
Millwall away
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Didn’t see a bit of bother when I went there to watch us. I expect you could easily find trouble if you wanted to like.
 
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NYC - I'd done a bit of research, before I traveled, to find an Adidas shop. Turns out it was well off the beaten track. Bought a pair of trainers and then needed to find our way back, just me and the Mrs. I wanted to get the bus as I wanted to see as much as i could of the place, rather than be stuck underground. Time felt like it stopped as we waited at the bus stop, and not one bus stopped! We stood out like a sore thumb as tourists. Locals just going about their business, except these 2 lads on bikes who kept going past us staring every time. We both decided the subway was the best way back.

Lviv - Day before the Champions League Final in Kiev. I'd traveled over on my own as my mates went on a coach! Stayed in a hostel in Lviv the night before. I could tell it was a bit moody where I was staying but it was daylight and loads of people about. I went out for some food and drinks and then headed back to the hostel after dark. Saying i was glad to get back in my room alive would be an understatement.
 
Waiting for a bus in the suburbs of Chicago, me and the Mrs after got lost making our way back from a mall. An elderly African American woman came up to us and told us it wasn’t safe for us to be here but she would stand with us in case any one approached and she would say we were with her. When the bus arrived she told the driver where we needed to be and he would let us know when it was out stop. As the bus drove away she waved us off. I think about her often and what might have happened if she hadn’t done that.
 
Malaga - ended up on some street in the centre, horrible, full of drug dealers and dodgy brothels.

Whitechapel - We had to walk from Bethnal Green to Whitechapel, walking down Whitechapel high street was horrible.
Ah, another one for me. I was in Bradenton, Florida, for a conference.

The hotel bar shut early and about 15 of us decided to go out, after a quick Google I found a nightclub around the corner, 5 mins in a taxi, perfect, I thought.

So we head there, some lads were from Ajax, Houston Dynamos and even Man Utd. We get there, go in through a metal detector, warning signs are starting.

We walk in and there was not one white person in the bar apart from us, we decided to stay for one drink and left, it was that uncomfortable and dodgy. Pimps the lot.

Read online the next morning that 2 month earlier there'd been a mass shooting there, gang related.
 
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Wise Man Says said:
Largely agree with this. My mates lived in Fresno. Stayed a few nights there, wouldn’t have wandered around much after dark. The experience I mentioned earlier in this thread was stopping the car in California late at night - creepy AF.

I don’t like LA much either.

Glasgow is edgy AF. One wrong comment to the wrong person about football, and you could be in big trouble. I also hated the bouncers up there - they’d interrogate us at the door as to where we’d been etc.
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I've really had no bother in Glasgow and I've spent 2 out of the last 6 years there. Govan Hill mentioned earlier, which I drive through into work isn't that bad on a night, just full of scruffy twats that throw their rubbish like old beds out onto the street.

If you don't talk about religion and just tell people you're a Sunderland supporter and don't have a 2nd team people are the friendliest (albeit lazy, workshy, unhealthy) funniest people I've ever worked with. I've also found the door staff to be very friendly and polite.
 
mysticmackem said:
I walked down a hill from the pub car park to the ground, why I thought that when I came out of the match, walking further down the hill, would find the car again, is beyond me. Made sense at the time. Quite a lot of the locals lurking in shop doorways, and down side streets. One or two with very visible battle injuries !!
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Might be the Tilehurst road then....
I lived in Reading for 25 years and never really saw any football bother....Swansea came up and tore the place apart once, some Chelsea fans broke into the south bank once and the whole place scarpered...there was about 10 of them...Cardiff played up a bit...
I always thought Reading were a bit soft to be honest...there’s places where it can get lively if you go looking, but never really seemed football related
 
Lukas73 said:
Might be the Tilehurst road then....
I lived in Reading for 25 years and never really saw any football bother....Swansea came up and tore the place apart once, some Chelsea fans broke into the south bank once and the whole place scarpered...there was about 10 of them...Cardiff played up a bit...
I always thought Reading were a bit soft to be honest...there’s places where it can get lively if you go looking, but never really seemed football related
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No it wasn't football related, it was just the fact that I was a lone stranger, at night, obvoiusly didn't have a clue where I was, and was running into groups of local characters. Just felt like it could get a bit leary any moment. I've been in some strange places all over the world, and it hasn't bothered me at all.This just felt a bit wrong
 
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NYC - I'd done a bit of research, before I traveled, to find an Adidas shop. Turns out it was well off the beaten track. Bought a pair of trainers and then needed to find our way back, just me and the Mrs. I wanted to get the bus as I wanted to see as much as i could of the place, rather than be stuck underground. Time felt like it stopped as we waited at the bus stop, and not one bus stopped! We stood out like a sore thumb as tourists. Locals just going about their business, except these 2 lads on bikes who kept going past us staring every time. We both decided the subway was the best way back.

Lviv - Day before the Champions League Final in Kiev. I'd traveled over on my own as my mates went on a coach! Stayed in a hostel in Lviv the night before. I could tell it was a bit moody where I was staying but it was daylight and loads of people about. I went out for some food and drinks and then headed back to the hostel after dark. Saying i was glad to get back in my room alive would be an understatement.
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Lviv is a cracking city isn't it
 
Few years ago in Canada, we were driving up through BC and looking for an RV park for the night, we saw an exit of the motorway with a sign that said RV park so we headed towards it, few miles on we came to a small village, I drove into the filling station to ask directions, the first thing I saw was one of those big twin cab pickups with a couple of rifles on the back window, alongside the pickup a woman, maybe 6ft 6" tall wearing a flowery dress, hair in curlers talking to the driver, a bit strange this I thought, I went into the filling station and was met by what looked like someone from Deliverance, I asked for directions and he just pointed, we drove a few miles on and saw a hand-painted sign for the park, down a dirt track that ended up at a Quarry, a Quarry full of wrecked cars, vans and a motorhome, we didn't stop. I have never felt more afraid in my life.
 
New York 1980 and Cape Town 1996 were both incredibly easy places to come unstuck due to a simple wrong turn.
 
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