Brutal

I only specified MBTA because last minute it’s $13 while I’ve seen Amtrak charge $50-90 within a few days of travel.

That’s fair. PVD was becoming rather international before COVID, hopefully that picks back up again. Norwegian Air was an absolute dream.

Your first best bet is to fly out of Providence and avoid that nightmare altogether. But since you didn’t do that, option two is taking the MBTA train to south station and hopping on the silver line.

Must be the snowy season, when it rains like a bitch

That Old Navy at downtown crossing cements Boston as the most tragically uncool city in America.

Bummer. Figured it was always too much to ask to have two Greek restaurants a block from each other downtown.

Maybe Paolino should realize his insistence on high rents is destroying downtown. No one wants to see empty storefronts with his logo on them a dozen times walking less than a mile across the city. You’d think a former mayor would understand that.

I suspected you were a racist fool, now I’m certain. Thanks.

You have demonstrated that over and over and over again here buddy no need to belabor the point

This is the culprit. I used to be in the industry and had this confirmed by a local venue owner. A rule obviously not meant for the density of the Northeast.

It’s why you’ll see New Haven get a show often instead of Providence.

> In 2022 a tremendous amount of guns were taken off the streets. Additionally, the gang from Silver Lake (responsible for the worst mass shooting in Providence history) was taken off the streets. Those two things are very likely why there was a large decrease in violent crime for most of 2022. Not some imaginary downward trend.

This is a bad thing? This indicates an increase in violence?

You’re the guy who sees the largest increase in fentanyl seizures at the border as a bad thing.

I see where you’re confused. “Crunching data” refers to taking a large sample size and analyzing it to produce meaningful information, not reducing a sample size to fit your assumptions.

How the fuck is a 12 month period over the last 14 months irrelevant? Oh, I know, it’s irrelevant when you a propagandist hack with garbage data parsing skills.

Oh so now you love extrapolating data, when you’ve usually got such a hard on for ignoring it?

Optimism, friend. The city is in a great place, rates of violent crimes are at the lowest on average in decades.

Only forced, propaganda-style fearmongering would suggest otherwise. But that couldn’t be you, right? You don’t only ever post violent crime articles entirely out of context incessantly do you? That would be ridiculous. Like, no sane person would do that….

Two homicides thus far, while tragic, would continue the excellent safety record for the city and follows the promising downward trend of violence in the city that we have enjoyed over the decades.

9 homicides in 2022 was the lowest the city has seen since 1972.

https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/providence/providence-shootings-dropped-by-nearly-half-in-2022/

Lack of critical thought, says the guy who ignores trends for anecdotes. Hey it’s cold outside, guess global warming doesn’t exist!

Also my username is a Workaholics reference.

So you choose to keep your head in the sand. Fair enough. Thankfully this sub doesn’t seem so easily fooled by your fear-mongering.

If you want to fan flames about an actual increasing wave of crime, go ahead and post about catalytic convert theft. It’s twice as bad as it was in 2021.

Once again you demonstrate your inability to parse individual stories and isolated incidents from the overall trends and relative safety of our capitol city. Posting those out of context is either an intentional attempt to mislead or an ignorant understanding of how data works. Regardless, I will follow your posts with posts like mine every time, and I hope you will open your mind to the reality of the data and city living.

Your anecdote, however tragic, does not undermine the overall data

That’s fair, I removed the insult. I reserve the right to feel that way about his obvious attempts to mislead and fearmonger.

Precisely why I posted this, to counter his narrative

To counter the OP’s incessant fear-mongering:

https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/providence/providence-shootings-dropped-by-nearly-half-in-2022/

TLDR:

The violent crime rate has been dropping for decades in this city. There was a spike during COVID, that is true for every single city in America, but now things are regressing to the mean. Providence is a wonderful city and I have never felt particularly unsafe, but it is still a city. Use your brains and you’ll be fine.

And don’t let alarmists like u/Previous_Floor and his propaganda fool you into pearl clutching.

“Run for the hills! It was untargeted violence that could easily happen to 90% of r/providence members!”

Signed,

u/Previous_Floor and all of his previously banned alts

Jack White is from Detroit and lives in Nashville. Deer Tick lives in Providence. Not sure what any of that has to do with NYC.