Either there are some freaks in this Reddit or I’m not surviving this move. Moving to the area this Fall and scrolling through, some of yall are making it sound like NH is the Wild West. Genuinely only seeing posts about crime, shitty drivers, etc. Making it sound like getting your car stolen, or at least broke into, is a canon event, or getting t-boned by a red light runner is a monthly occurrence.
I’m good at taking these things with a grain of salt but these posts don’t seem to be outliers, or just no one is posting about the redeeming qualities of NH.
Be honest with me: will I be safe living/driving in East Rock? Genuine safety tips for the area, times/places to avoid, or is this truly just the common national trend towards shit that every US city is seeing right now? Please confirm my suspicion that this is largely an over-dramatization/sampling bias and that NH is not the scariest most dangerous city in all of the country.
Also please share what you love about the city and help counteract haters
EDIT:
Thank you so much for all of these positive anecdotes, definitely confirming my suspicion that the New Haven terror is truly a waspy overreaction to average city experiences