What is your biggest fear about NYC?

[SeventhFloor]

Let's talk about our fears. What's something about this city that scares you?

For me, its the chance of a random violent event happening in my vicinity. For example, when that terrorist event on the West Side highway happened a few years ago, I worked a few blocks away, I didn't even know something had happened until ppl started texting and calling me. I'm always thinking of a chance of something occurring in the back of my mind. At the same time, it helps me to be more aware of my surroundings.

What about you guys?

[NjDevils3027]

Something subway related - a crazy or the infrastructure.

[2020's YouTube Vlog]

That rent is going to keep going up

[leoliu]

Originally Posted by SeventhFloor

Let's talk about our fears. What's something about this city that scares you?

For me, its the chance of a random violent event happening in my vicinity. For example, when that terrorist event on the West Side highway happened a few years ago, I worked a few blocks away, I didn't even know something had happened until ppl started texting and calling me. I'm always thinking of a chance of something occurring in the back of my mind. At the same time, it helps me to be more aware of my surroundings.

What about you guys?

thugs that go off without any warning...

[SeventhFloor]

Originally Posted by 2020's YouTube Vlog

That rent is going to keep going up

How much are you looking to pay?

[SeventhFloor]

Originally Posted by NjDevils3027

Something subway related - a crazy or the infrastructure.

That's a valid concern

[SeventhFloor]

Originally Posted by leoliu

thugs that go off without any warning...

Does the color of the thug going off matter to you?

[poi098]

Astronomical COL.

20-30 years ago you could make $5/hr as a dishwasher and be alright. Work your way up a bit and be comfortable.

You need a minimum of six figs per person to have a similar lifestyle today. Expensive degrees, high qualifications, numerous certifications.

This place is for the dirt poor and filthy rich. If you make between $75-200k jokes on you. Save, invest, pack up and leave.

[Mightyqueen801]

Originally Posted by SeventhFloor

Let's talk about our fears. What's something about this city that scares you?

For me, its the chance of a random violent event happening in my vicinity. For example, when that terrorist event on the West Side highway happened a few years ago, I worked a few blocks away, I didn't even know something had happened until ppl started texting and calling me. I'm always thinking of a chance of something occurring in the back of my mind. At the same time, it helps me to be more aware of my surroundings.

What about you guys?

I'm not really afraid in the city, and sometimes I think I perhaps should be a little more. I've always been aware of my surroundings and continue that practice (In fact, I raised my daughter with "always be aware of your surroundings, who is around you, what the situation is" and so forth. Now at 32, she has said to me, "Ma, it's amazing to me how many people do NOT seem to be aware of what's going on around them."

But, as you know, I got out of the WTC on 9/11. One of the side effects of that experience was that after facing what I thought might be the moment of my death, I seem to have lost most of my fear of death. Not that I wouldn't flinch if face with a gun or an oncoming train, but more like an acceptance that we die and there might not be much we can do about it.

I do some work that requires me to attend engineering industry events, usually at night. Many of these events are held at a venue near GCT. I take a train back to Jersey from Penn, and most of the time I walk the 1.1 miles to Penn. I like walking through the city. It has an energy, and now that the pandemic is behind, people are out on the streets, in the bars and restaurants, shopping, on line for the ESB ob deck, (it's generally around 7:30 - 8 pm when I'm out walking. I'm not scared; in fact, I enjoy the walk. Yes, there are sketch people on the street here and there, but there always have been, and I stay aware of them and where they are in relation to me, but I'm not afraid. And I'm 65 years old.

[prospectheightsresident]

For me, it's not terrorism, although that is a concern always given what NYC symbolizes to Jihadists and the like. For me, it's random street violence. Thankfully, things are as bad as they were when I was growing up in Bed-Stuy in the 1990s (I've written before about how we were almost shot walking down Nostrand Avenue on the way home, my father and brother were both robbed at gunpoint on our block coming home, we've been at corner stores where a clear robbery was about to happen and the clerk motioned for us to leave in order to avoid danger, hearing gunshots at all times during the night, etc.), they aren't exactly trending in the right direction either.