EgoDefenseMechanism t1_irgulfm wrote on October 8, 2022 at 12:48 AM

So, anecdotally, I make just into the low six figure range and live in NYC, so income not that far off from that woman. Yes, there has been some noticeable increases in cost, namely rent and groceries, but that's it, and in the outer boroughs this was annoying, but not an economic catastrophe as this article tries to portray. My rent in Queens went up $200 from 2020 to 2022. Grocery bill went up about $100 per month too.

But I'm doing fine. I pay my rent and still save, but maybe just less than 10% less than pre-pandemic. This article is the usual clickbait "NYC is going into an apocalypse of `1980s death" and nothing more. Yes, rents have skyrocketed in the trendy Manhattan neighborhoods that were populated primarily by millionaires. But most neighborhoods, especially in the outer boroughs, experienced little to none of that. If you MUST live in, say, Chelsea or the Upper East Side, then yea, maybe you can't afford that like someone with a $100k salary could have in 2015. But you'd be fine in the rest of the city.

MyPiedaterre t1_irj4vno wrote on October 8, 2022 at 4:46 PM

To play devil’s advocate, there’s a lot of mentally unstable people roaming the transit system and they’re much more likely to target women. A lot of women don’t want to take a long train ride at night after work+social events.

lotsofdeadkittens t1_irw63pr wrote on October 11, 2022 at 2:28 PM

This is absolutely valid, but the reality is that despite public perception this is objectively the safest city in America for women

MyPiedaterre t1_irwl4x6 wrote on October 11, 2022 at 4:10 PM

In other American cities, most women can drive back home after a late night. This is an impossible option for most New Yorkers

lotsofdeadkittens t1_irwltgu wrote on October 11, 2022 at 4:14 PM

Yes. And objectively there is less late night violence towards women per capita here.

I’m not saying it doesn’t exist but the car argument is bad. People follow women in cares back to their homes, and I speculate that often they drive to a more quiet area it’s dangerous as well.

Regardless Theresa big issue where people conflate only late night creeper followin crime as the risk. That percentage of violence giant women is very very very small compared to all the other unfortunate avenues of danger. Nyc does way better in stoping violence against women by every metric.

Using theoretical anecdotes about how nyc is less safe cause women cat drive home, is silly when there’s all the statistics out there showing a woman is safer going home from an nyc bar to an nyc apartment than any other city’s bar scene.

I’m not devaluing that we can always do way more to fix violence late at night, but we need to stop coming from a place of flat out false comparisons to other American and western cities.