Remember, your still in Brooklyn???

LOCK YOU DOORS!

They are saying that there is still the possibility, even in the safest of neighborhoods that you will

1) Have your car broken into

2) Have your poketbook, phone, ipod or chain snatched

3) Have your home broken into

4) Be the victim of a car, bike, truck or train accident

5) See someone else being victimized

6) Have someone threaten to beat the crap out of you if you don't stop doing whatever aggravating thing you are currently engaged in (or actually beat the crap out of you)

7) Have your pets, plants or bike stolen from your property

8 ) Be aggressivly panhandled by angry homeless and/or jobless and/or addicted persons

9) Be awoken in the middle of the night by people screaming expletives outside of your windows

10) Live here long enough that everything on this list has happened to you and you still are not traumatized by any of it

>>your still in Brooklyn

Your WHAT is still in Brooklyn?

There are places where most of the things on homeowner's list are about as likely as winning the lottery, so I think the "you're still in Brooklyn" comment is meant for people from places like that, who might have a very different concept of a safe area than the rest of us.

While I was living in Chapel Hill, NC in an area I found to be absurdly safe and friendly and charming I had a neighbor who thought it a dangerous place. She was from some suburb with so little crime that she was nervous about going on walks with me at night in well-lit, far from vacant or seedy areas (think beautiful gardens and little outdoor theater performances as our surroundings). To her, areas we think of as safe in Brooklyn are terrifying.

I've lived here long enough to have performed some of the acts on that list. I was young and impressionable. What can I say? :twisted:

It means nothing. They might as well say you're still in America or on planet Earth. Do that many people say that? It wouldn't even occur to me to say that to someone.

Maybe it means "It's safe here, but we'd still like to maintain our tough rep so we can impress people when we say we live in Brooklyn"?

But it probably really means "Our neighborhood is safe, but the dangerous people who live in the dangerous parts of Brooklyn can still get here without having to cross water."

Lived in Brooklyn my entire life - good nabes as well as not so good nabes. Never had ANY problem. The only times I have had a problem was in midtown Manhattan and in the Village.

"Every time I read about someone moving to an area that most people agree to be safe, there are always people telling that person to remember that they are still in Brooklyn. What exactly are these people trying to imply??" These people are trying to imply that they WISH they could live in Brooklyn. Assholes need not apply.