Got robbed yesterday at gunpoint. I'm leaving 15 years of my career and friends behind, and moving to Switzerland.
Yesterday, I got robbed by 2 black man at gunpoint after leaving a steak-restaurant in Lower Manhattan. I've been living in this fucking city since I've graduated from college, which is more than 15 years, and have never been harassed or robbed by anyone. I don't a have shiny car nor I wear stupid stuff like Gucci/LV that will show I got money. They took my wallet, phone and my fucking watch. I had to run back to the restaurant and make them call the fucking cops. It was fucking sickening.
Nowadays, everything about this country is so fucking stupid. Fucking liberals are crying there about taxes, cops, opression and racism while ''opressed'' people are stealing our hard-earned money, and fucking conservatives sit there and talk about fucking conspiracy theories and getting chipped by the government.
I will move to a small Swiss village and work at a small fund. I may even start my own fund later on. Most likely, I will make less than the quarter of money I make in NYC, but I'm sure if I continue to stay here soon I will have fucking ED.
Advice for you: Leave this fucking shithole before you get killed by a useless dog and make sure that your watch has theft-insurance.
Should work smoothly...as there is literally nowhere in the western world more unwelcoming to foreigners than a small swiss village that is not a GVA/Zuri bedroom community.
Think Deliverance with better scenery
Couldn't agree more.
He might have some familial connection to Switzerland. Seems like an odd choice if he didn't.
If he doesn’t have a connection to Switzerland he should go to Luxembourg. Much larger expat community and closer to major cities.
I live in Chicago and feel the same way. The politics here has always been corrupt, but the gross misconduct of the city and state government over the past two years is hard to top. People are now getting carjacked at gunpoint in the nicest neighborhoods with their kids in the back seat. It will be interesting to see how history books portray this time in our country 100 years from now.
I’ve only been in Chicago since the start of 2020, but many people I’ve interacted with, whom have been there awhile, have the sentiment that crime has gotten worse. Coming from a male perspective, I’ve never really felt unsafe wherever I’ve lived (LA, NYC), but my fiancé has mentioned she never wants to go out alone in Chicago, even just down to street to the grocer. She’s been followed many times, groped just a block from where we live, and was even harassed in our own fucking building lobby.
Our first full day in the city actually, we were in line for Trader Joe’s and we witnessed a mugging - classic lmao, I told my fiancé not to tell her parents I brought her to this city hahaha.
my girlfriend and i are moving to chicago in a couple months and i'm already thinking about the next step after the city. just feel like it's not worth the risk. i mean sure millions of people can live there and be fine but still feels like a risk
Yeah I’m a girl and truly don’t feel comfortable walking around by myself after dark anymore. Prior to COVID I was always aware of my surroundings but wouldn’t hesitate to take the El at 8 pm on a Tuesday night for example.. would never do that now. Sad thing is you can’t even be safe by walking around in groups as these kids, without flinching, will now hold up groups of 3-5 people at gunpoint to mug them, hop in a getaway car and hit another group 10 minutes later now. With absolutely no consequences.
Belmont TJ's?
I go to a school in chicago. I can confirm that yes, the crime has gotten worse.
This is what happens when people want to defund the police. Imagine you're risking your life every day to keep the community safe, and then suddenly the very people you're protecting start calling slurs and protesting to get you fired. Who, under these circumstances, would have the motivation to keep doing their job? Can't believe how woke America has become
We don't just need more cops but more prosecutions, less “bail reform”, less “criminal justice reform”, less early release, less plea bargaining, and more mandatory minimums. Some of these DA's are not only incompetent but straight-up fucking criminal, especially Chesa Boudin who was celebrating the prison release of his father who killed 3 people while trying to rob a truck to fund terrorism. He also dropped gun charges in retaliation to a victim's family condemning him, and there are just dozens and dozens of examples of his corruption that have undermined the criminal justice system and made the streets of SF un-walkable. This stuff is also happening in Texas too. Soft-on-crime policies kill.
Why not just move to connecticut(greenwich, New Canaan, darien, West port).
Plenty of funds there paying top dollar.
Its the tried and true path for white flight.
Sell equities in Dallas, like duh
What kind of watch did you have and did you have insurance on it? Curious if it will pay out. This is good advice to have a policy if you have an expensive one.
Any decent coverage will pay out 100% in the event of a police report. The tricky part is whether it is a standalone policy or something bundled with homeowner's insurance; in the case of using homeowner's insurance, sometimes the policy states it's only covered if the jewelry/watch is stolen or destroyed from the home.
Move to Charlotte NC and thank me later.
How was the steak?
Also glad you are ok bro.
Skewered. One sympathizes
tHaTs JuSt LiViNg In a BiG CiTy 🤡🤡
ABOLISH BAIL <3
Sounds like they hit the jackpot good for those 2
Let's hope they don't get back for another one.
Homeless people are actually incentivized to commit a crime - they get shelter, healthcare, and free food.
Damn - do you think you were targeted for the watch or just the first person these criminals encountered? Were you waiting for an Uber or something and they just walked up on you? It's sad to see what this city is becoming as someone who has also been here about 15 years. I'm sorry this happened to you, must be terrifying.
Someone please tag here the guy who asked if NYC is worth it
Also tag the guy who shit on people for wanting to live outside the city.
Been in NYC twenty years and shit has hit the fan since covid. If your lucky enough to be able to afford to leave and work a less paying job I guess it's worth it. But for the young people in the city, leaving isn't rlly an option.Have fun in the alps. Let us know how it goes.
You got caught lacking in the field buddy – plain and simple. You have no one to blame here but yourself. Get that concealed carry permit, buy yourself a nice glock, and carry on.
Gotta have a lot of luck for that in NYC
nice
glock
Pick one
You get mugged and flee?
How about JP Morgan associates who are comped under market? Should they retreat to Switzerland to find solace from the unjustice of America???
The fact that people are fleeing cities and the country in general is insane. Is this not the same country millions try to immigrate to every year? It goes to show, no matter how great the economic success, if the government restricts people's right to bear arms, crime will be part of everyday life.
I can assure you, as someone who lives in a country that has tight gun legislation, that America's problem is not that it has too few guns...
Alright I'll bite, what country do you live in?
And I did not say that America's problem was with 'too few' guns. It is easy to BUY a gun. The issue is with CARRYING guns. See below.
~30% of Americans own a gun, but only ~1% of Americans actually carry a gun. And while I didn't see a great statistic on where those Americans are, I think we can logically agree that nearly all of those ~3M Americans who carry live in rural areas where crime isn't likely to occur anyways. The issue is that in the cities discussed above: Chicago, NYC, etc., its nearly impossible to legally carry a gun. So what good is it owning a gun? I can tell you, that I legally own multiple but do not carry as I live in one of the aforementioned cities where its illegal. So while America is largely connected with high gun ownership, it doesn't translate to actually being able to use the guns (and the thugs who mug people in NY alleyways knows there is a 99.9% chance they are unarmed).
And yes, there are a lot of socioeconomic, race and other factors that make stats easy to manipulate and hard to compare, but this doesn't change the underlying thinking. Just imagine you are a criminal going to rob someone. If you knew statically a person was likely armed, wouldn't that make you re-think?
Abolish bail - wooooooo!
The police force (nation-wide) makes over 1,000,000 annual arrests for drug possessions, with around 500,000 currently incarcerated for drug offenses. Data from the Bureau of Prisons shows that around half of federal inmates are incarcerated due to drug offenses— more than double the amount of those serving time for weapons/explosives/arson charges, over nine times that of those locked up for burglary/larceny/property offenses, and over four times that of those incarcerated for sex offenses. Pre-trial detentions comprise around 2/3rds of the incarcerated in U.S. jails. Of that 2/3rds, 75% were charged with drug, property, or other nonviolent offenses. In 2013, over half of New York City’s incarcerated jail population was locked up due to the inability to pay bail of $2,500 or less, so TLDR, yeah... I'm on the side of drastically lowering the prevalence of bail lol.
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