Hope that makes sense playboy.
it does and it doesn't. it doesn't because that really wasn't what i was getting at.
let me put it to you this way:
there are places in oakland where i'm sure i'd feel perfectly safe. there are places in new orleans where i feel perfectly safe.
there are places in oakland where i'm sure i wouldn't feel safe. there are places in new orleans where i don't feel safe.
if i was visiting oakland, i'm sure that when i was where i needed to be that i would feel perfectly safe. if you visit new orleans, you will, for the most part, be in places where you should feel perfectly safe. however, that says nothing about the other parts of either town.
but again, new orleans is a pretty unique city. i've seen it compared to johannesburg, south africa (i haven't been to johannesburg and won't comment) in the sense that you can be in a perfectly fine part of town on one street and run into a relatively bad part of town on the next. many people don't realize, especially when they are walking through the city, in what kind of part of town they are in. this is a real problem during mardi gras. walk to the end of the french quarter and you are in a relatively bad part of town in which you are liable to have the fuck kicked out of you and all of your shit stolen. fortunately, this is not an extremely bad portion of town. (this is how i understand it to be. while i do know a fair amount about the city, i have never lived in new orleans and don't plan to unless i'm rolling in dough.)