[MyFirstSass]

What in the world am i talking about? I'm talking about the fact that i were there for 3 weeks the last time - lived in Brooklyn, and almost 100% of the times i took the metro downtown there were extremely unstable and mentally unwell people in each train, and often even in multiple wagons just walking around talking to people / the air / pissing themselves etc.

Absolutely nowhere in Europe will you experience that with that frequency yet, even though it's getting worse. Rough areas? Many. The weird guy here and there in the Subway, off course - but almost each and every time you drive in the subway - hard no! I lived in london for a few years and never really encountered any totally strung out people with their pants down, i did multiple times in NY in those 3 weeks.

Also off course i'm not talking about Williamsburg, a good example was going just north of the richest areas in Upper East side into Harlem, and wow what a contrast.

[low_common]

Contrasting that part of Harlem and the Upper East Side is like comparing one of those rough areas you mentioned to a prestigious neighborhood in the same city. What did you expect? Harlem is famous for being rough, although it's way better than it used to be.

I live here, I ride the subway every day. Are there mentally unwell people who ride the train? Sure there are. Is it even close to "100% of the time"? Absolutely not. It's like you had this fantasy about NYC and when you came here and it wasn't this sterile Disneyland you imploded. I could say the same things about Paris and London. Rampant pickpockets, drug use, poverty.