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luxor88 t1_jaao9qo wrote

Walk on the left, stand on the right. Be a decent human with some street smarts and you’ll be fine. Also, if you plan to walk a lot just keep your head on a swivel. Don’t expect that the cross walk will always be respected. It’s a city, there’s an assload of traffic, and people get impatient.

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Ok_Culture_3621 t1_jab6ti2 wrote

Fair and balanced. Though I think the part about street smarts is what they fear they’re lacking. I would expand that to be aware of your surroundings, assume that if anyone you don’t know approaches you they want something, don’t get up in anyone else’s business unless it’s absolutely necessary (like, someone’s gonna die if you don’t) and always remember that 99% of the people you see on the street are totally harmless (most of the time). You just can never know who and where the other 1% are

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luxor88 t1_jab9f60 wrote

Yeah, agreed — I just felt like I didn’t have much to add as it seemed pretty well covered

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Ok_Culture_3621 t1_jab9o89 wrote

Yeah, as I read further down they got more reasonable. The posts leading up to yours were all kind of unhelpful doomposting so I thought I’d thrown in something practical. Turns out it wasn’t necessary, but I enjoyed writing anyway.

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