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JCKang t1_itv9dz7 wrote

Are you just here for a semester, in University housing? You're 99.9% safe from violent crime, as long as you use some common sense (though common sense is different from country to country, I find!).

Where are you coming from, if I may ask?

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Extreme_Necessary_56 OP t1_itvg1yh wrote

If there is a spot, I will be living in dorms. If not, I would have to look for an off-campus housing. I come from Saudi Arabia, specifically a city called Jeddah. We see some wild stuff here, but idk how that would compare to Richmond yet. I’ll defiantly be making a vin diagram of the two cities once I arrive there lol.

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JCKang t1_itvgy76 wrote

Ah, cool. I actually have an acquaintance from Jedda. He's a sci-fi author, and joked about Jeddah from the Star Wars universe. He's actually getting one of my books translated into Arabic.

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Extreme_Necessary_56 OP t1_itvibn1 wrote

That’s so coool! Do you think there is a lot of Arabs in Richmond?

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LouieKablooie t1_itvnodk wrote

There are but VCU specifically has a decent Kuwaiti population at least in my experience, met a lot of them that stayed in or around the John Marshall downtown.

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